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hes¹

noun

  1. plural plural of he

hes²

  • /hiːz/

Rhymes with -iːz

determiner he's · his

  1. alternative, nonstandard, uncommon Alternative form of his when pronounced as he's; belonging to him. That's hes house over there.

pronoun he's · his

  1. alternative, nonstandard, uncommon Alternative form of his when pronounced as he's; that that belongs to him. The idea was hes not mine.

hes³

  • /hiːz/

Rhymes with -iːz

Where it comes from

From he's via a reduction of the apostrophe.

contraction

  1. alternative, contraction, informal, nonstandard Alternative form of he's

hes⁴

  • /hɛz/

Rhymes with -ɛz

verb

  1. nonstandard, pronunciation spelling Pronunciation spelling of has, representing dialectal English. Jennie! Jennie! come an’ tell me thet the long-lost claim hes come back to Old Jack!

hes⁵

  • /hɛs/

Rhymes with -ɛs

Where it comes from

A mixture of she and he. Coined by Ching Hai in 1990s.

pronoun hirm · hirmself · hiers

  1. gender neutral, neologism, nominative, singular, third person The person of unspecified gender previously mentioned or implied.

Hes⁶

proper noun

  1. plural plural of He

HES⁷

noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of house exchange system

proper noun

  1. Historic Environment Scotland.

HEs⁸

noun

  1. plural plural of HE

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: helium, all-round, hess, males, thats, whos, shes, sanchez, imo, lol, anderson, hughes, gomez, gerrard, danny, haha

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@misc{hes_2026,
  title = {hes},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hes},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}