How to spell hair

Hair is spelled H-A-I-R.

hear ithair/hɜr/nounStarter

What it means: Cylindrical filaments growing from skin.

In a sentence: Anna loves to braid her long hair.

Same family: by a hair, hairline, hair’s breadth, narrowly, barely. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The use of “hair” to mean a very small distance comes from the idea that a single strand of hair is extremely thin. English speakers later created the phrase “a hair’s breadth” to describe something that is only as wide as one hair, and this became a common way to talk about narrow escapes or tiny differences.

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