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hes

/hiːz/

hes is the plural of he.

hes is the alternative form of his when pronounced as he's.

hes is the alternative form of he's.

hes is the pronunciation spelling of has.

Meaning of he

Noun (1)

he (countable and uncountable, plural hes)

  1. (uncountable) The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he".
  2. The player who chases and attempts to catch the others in this game.
  3. (informal) A male.
    • Is your cat a he or a she?

Noun (2)

he

  1. The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
    • The same number in the Hebrew mysteries and Cabalistical accounts was the character of Generation; declared by the Letter He, the fifth in their Alphabet.1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 210
  2. The name of the first letter of the Old South Arabian abjad.

See all 13 meanings of he

Pronoun

IPA/hɛs/

hes (third-person singular, gender-neutral, nominative case, oblique hirm, reflexive hirmself, possessive hiers)

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

Noun (1) capitalized: HES

HES

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of house exchange system.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: HES

HES

  1. Historic Environment Scotland.

Noun (2) capitalized: HEs

HEs

  1. (plural) plural of HE

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Hes

Hes

  1. (plural) plural of He

Forms of hes

Determiner
alternative formhe's
alternative formhis
Pronoun
obliquehirm
reflexivehirmself
possessivehiers

Origin of hes

From he's via a reduction of the apostrophe.

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

Words that rhyme with hes

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about hes

What does hes mean?
Hes means the person of unspecified gender previously mentioned or implied.
What is hes the plural of?
Hes is the plural of he.
What part of speech is hes?
Hes can be a pronoun, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce hes?
Hes is pronounced /hiːz/.

Words near hes in the dictionary

  1. Herzlianism
  2. Herzlians
  3. herzog
  4. Herzogian
  5. herzogs
  6. hes
  7. hESC
  8. Hesch
  9. Hesches
  10. Heschl's gyri
  11. Heschl's gyrus

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hes (page history and authors); HES (page history and authors); HEs (page history and authors); Hes (page history and authors); he (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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