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)
Noun (2)
he
- 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
- The name of the first letter of the Old South Arabian abjad.
Pronoun
IPA/hɛs/
hes (third-person singular, gender-neutral, nominative case, oblique hirm, reflexive hirmself, possessive hiers)
- The person of unspecified gender previously mentioned or implied.
Noun (1) capitalized: HES
HES
- Initialism of house exchange system.
Proper noun (1) capitalized: HES
HES
- Historic Environment Scotland.
Noun (2) capitalized: HEs
HEs
- plural of HE
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Hes
Hes
- plural of He
Forms of hes
| Determiner | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | he's |
| alternative form | his |
| Pronoun | |
| oblique | hirm |
| reflexive | hirmself |
| possessive | hiers |
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
- wheeze
- Cantonese
- chemise
- miner's disease
- trapeze
- Congolese
- dees
- disease
- displease
- frieze
- Japanese
- Keyes
- leese
- overseas
- pease
- please
- Portuguese
- sneeze
- tweeze
- appease
- bes
- bez
- blue cheese
- botanese
- Burmese
- expertise
- fries
- greeze
- Guyanese
- he's
- Javanese
- keys
- legalese
- Louise
- Maltese
- Ningbonese
- octopodes
- Pekingese
- Shanghainese
- she's
- Sinhalese
- Socrates
- tees
- Versaillese
- Viennese
- Vietnamese
- a little bit of bread and no cheese
- academese
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
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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