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say it: her
hair is a noun meaning "a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss". It is pronounced /ˈhɛɹ/ — her. It carries 6 recorded senses.
a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss
“he combed his hair”
“each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells”
a very small distance or space
“they escaped by a hair's-breadth”
“they lost the election by a whisker”
filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
“peach fuzz”
any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal
“there is a hair in my soup”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hair come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.