She

/ʃiː/

Synonyms for "she" (49 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (10)

Suffix(3 words)
-a-ette-trix
alteralter egoalterumbetter selfego
Pronoun(2 words)
anaphoric pronounella

Strong matches (15)

ethical selffemalefemale beingheherherselfhimhimselfii myself
Pronoun(3 words)
female pronounfeminine pronounfeminine third-person pronoun
Noun(2 words)

Related words (24)

inner maninner selfititselfmemy humble selfmyselfnumber oneoneselfother selfourselvesselfsubconscious selfsubliminal selfsuperegothemthemselvestheyyouyours truly
Show 2 more words
Pronoun(1 words)
referential pronoun
Noun(1 words)

Choosing the right synonym

  • Closest matches in this entry: -a, -ette, -trix, alter, alter ego.
  • Sentence evidence is available for she, so synonym choice can be checked against real usage rather than a flat word list.
  • Ranking signals come from derived_reverse, moby, opengloss.

Synonym selection checklist

  • Match the part of speech before comparing meanings.
  • Check whether the synonym changes intensity, formality, or emotional tone.
  • Read the replacement inside the full sentence, not just beside "she".
  • Prefer the clearest word over the most unusual word when writing for speed or comprehension.

When not to replace "she"

Keep "she" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.

If two options seem close, choose the one that best matches the audience and purpose of the sentence.

Replacement workflow

1. Preserve meaning

Choose a synonym only if it keeps the core idea of "she" intact in the sentence you are editing.

2. Tune tone

Check whether the replacement sounds more formal, casual, emotional, technical, or forceful than the original word.

3. Re-read context

Read the full sentence after the swap. Keep the synonym only when the sentence becomes clearer or more precise.

Review note: Synonym lists are ranked with lexical data and reviewed for practical writing value. Use the comparison notes, sentence evidence, and source labels together; a high-ranking synonym can still be wrong when the audience, register, or grammar changes.

Final fit check

After choosing a replacement for "she", read the sentence once for meaning and once for rhythm. The best synonym should feel natural in the full sentence, not only accurate in a word list.

If the synonym makes the sentence slower, vaguer, or more dramatic than intended, keep "she" or choose a simpler alternative from the closest-match group.

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

3 relation types

More general

3 entries
anaphorpersonal pronounpronoun

More specific

5 entries
anaphoric pronounfeminine subject pronounreferential pronounsingular pronounthird person pronoun

Collocations

6 entries
feminine pronoungendered pronounpersonal pronounpronoun formsubject pronounthird person pronoun

Translations

280 translations across 201 languages.

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Abkhaz

1 entries
  • лара pron (person)

Afar

1 entries
  • is pron (person)

Afrikaans

1 entries
  • sy pron (person)

Akan

1 entries
  • ɔno pron (person)

Albanian

1 entries
  • ajo pron (person)

Amharic

1 entries
  • እሷ pron (person)

Ancient Greek

4 entries
  • ἐκείνη pron (person)
  • pron (person)
  • pron (person)
  • ἥδε pron (person)

Arabic

3 entries
  • هي pron (person)
  • هي pron (person)
  • هِيَ pron (person)

Aragonese

1 entries
  • ella pron (person)

Aramaic

2 entries
  • הי pron (person)
  • ܗܝ pron (person)

Armenian

1 entries
  • նա pron (person)

Aromanian

4 entries
  • ea pron (person)
  • ia pron (person)
  • nãsa pron (person)
  • nãsã pron (person)

Assamese

4 entries
  • এই pron (person)
  • এওঁ pron (person)
  • তাই pron (person)
  • তেওঁ pron (person)

Asturian

1 entries
  • ella pron (person)

Aymara

1 entries
  • jupa pron (person)

Azerbaijani

1 entries
  • o pron (person)

Bambara

1 entries
  • a pron (person)

Bashkir

1 entries
  • ул pron (person)

Basque

2 entries
  • bera pron (person)
  • hura pron (person)

Belarusian

1 entries
  • яна́ pron (person)

Bengali

2 entries
  • আপনি pron (person)
  • সে pron (person)

Bikol Central

1 entries
  • siya pron (person)

Bouyei

1 entries
  • deel pron (person)

Breton

1 entries
  • hi pron (person)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • тя pron (person)

Burmese

2 entries
  • သူ pron (person)
  • သူမ pron (person)

Carpathian Rusyn

1 entries
  • она́ pron (person)

Catalan

1 entries
  • ella pron (person)

Central Sierra Miwok

1 entries
  • hís·ak pron (person)

Chadian Arabic

1 entries
  • هي pron (person)

Chichewa

1 entries
  • iye pron (person)

Chinese

2 entries
  • та pron (person)
  • pron (person)

Chinese Cantonese

3 entries
  • pron (person)
  • pron (person)
  • pron (person)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries
  • pron (person)
  • pron (person)
  • pron (person)

Church Slavic

1 entries
  • она pron (person)

Chuvash

1 entries
  • вӑл pron (person)

Cornish

1 entries
  • hi pron (person)

Corsican

2 entries
  • edda pron (person)
  • ella pron (person)

Czech

1 entries
  • ona pron (person)

Dalmatian

1 entries
  • jala pron (person)

Danish

1 entries
  • hun pron (person)

Dari

2 entries
  • او pron (person)
  • وَی pron (person)

Dutch

1 entries
  • zij pron (person)

Eastern Min Chinese

1 entries
  • pron (person)

Egyptian

4 entries
  • n:t-s pron (person)
  • s pron (person)
  • s-t:t pron (person)
  • s-y pron (person)

Erzya

1 entries
  • сон pron (person)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • ŝi pron (person)

Estonian

1 entries
  • tema pron (person)

Ewe

1 entries
  • eya pron (person)

Fala

1 entries
  • ela pron (person)

Faroese

1 entries
  • hon pron (person)

Fijian

1 entries
  • koya pron (person)

Finnish

2 entries
  • hän pron (person)
  • se pron (person)

French

1 entries
  • elle pron (person)

Friulian

1 entries
  • pron (person)

Galician

1 entries
  • ela pron (person)

Georgian

1 entries
  • ის pron (person)

German

1 entries
  • sie pron (person)

Greek

1 entries
  • αυτή pron (person)

Greenlandic

1 entries
  • una pron (person)

Hakka Chinese

1 entries
  • pron (person)

Hausa

1 entries
  • ’ítá pron (person)

Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai

1 entries
  • nyihá pron (person)

Hawaiian

1 entries
  • ia pron (person)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • הִיא pron (person)

Hindi

2 entries
  • यह pron (person)
  • वह pron (person)

Hopi

1 entries
  • pam pron (person)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • ő pron (person)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • hún pron (person)

Ido

2 entries
  • el pron (person)
  • elu pron (person)

Inari Sami

1 entries
  • sun pron (person)

Indonesian

2 entries
  • dia pron (person)
  • ia pron (person)

Ingrian

1 entries
  • hää pron (person)

Interlingua

1 entries
  • illa pron (person)

Iranian Persian

3 entries
  • او pron (person)
  • اوی pron (person)
  • وِی pron (person)

Irish

2 entries
  • pron (person)
  • í pron (person)

Istriot

1 entries
  • gila pron (person)

Italian

2 entries
  • ella pron (person)
  • lei pron (person)

Japanese

4 entries
  • あの人 pron (person)
  • あの方 pron (person)
  • pron (person)
  • 彼女 pron (person)

Javanese

2 entries
  • dhèwèké pron (person)
  • piyambakipun pron (person)

Jin Chinese

1 entries
  • pron (person)

Judeo-Italian

1 entries
  • אֵיסַה pron (person)

Kabuverdianu

1 entries
  • el pron (person)

Kalo Finnish Romani

1 entries
  • joi pron (person)

Kannada

2 entries
  • ಅವಳು pron (person)
  • ಇವಳು pron (person)

Karakhanid

1 entries
  • اُلْ pron (person)

Karelian

1 entries
  • häi pron (person)

Kashubian

1 entries
  • òna pron (person)

Kazakh

1 entries
  • ол pron (person)

Khakas

1 entries
  • ол pron (person)

Khmer

4 entries
  • គាត់ pron (person)
  • ទ្រង់ pron (person)
  • នាង pron (person)
  • ព្រះនាង pron (person)

Kildin Sami

1 entries
  • со̄нн pron (person)

Korean

3 entries
  • pron (person)
  • 그녀 pron (person)
  • 이분 pron (person)

Kyrgyz

1 entries
  • ал pron (person)

Ladin

1 entries
  • ëila pron (person)

Lao

1 entries
  • ເຂົາ pron (person)

Latgalian

2 entries
  • jei pron (person)
  • šei pron (person)

Latin

3 entries
  • ea pron (person)
  • haec pron (person)
  • illa pron (person)

Latvian

1 entries
  • viņa pron (person)

Levantine Arabic

1 entries
  • هي pron (person)

Limburgish

2 entries
  • het pron (person)
  • ze pron (person)

Lingala

1 entries
  • pron (person)

Linngithigh

1 entries
  • lu pron (person)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • ji pron (person)

Louisiana Creole

1 entries
  • li pron (person)

Low German

2 entries
  • se pron (person)
  • sei pron (person)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries
  • wóna pron (person)

Lule Sami

1 entries
  • sån pron (person)

Macedonian

1 entries
  • таа pron (person)

Malay

2 entries
  • dia pron (person)
  • ia pron (person)

Maltese

1 entries
  • hi pron (person)

Manx

1 entries
  • ee pron (person)

Mazanderani

1 entries
  • وه pron (person)

Moksha

1 entries
  • сон pron (person)

Mongolian

1 entries
  • тэр pron (person)

Motu

1 entries
  • ia pron (person)

Mòcheno

1 entries
  • si pron (person)

Māori

1 entries
  • ia pron (person)

Ngazidja Comorian

1 entries
  • ye pron (person)

Northern Sami

1 entries
  • son pron (person)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • hun pron (person)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • ho pron (person)

Occitan

1 entries
  • ela pron (person)

Ojibwe

1 entries
  • wiin pron (person)

Old East Slavic

1 entries
  • она pron (person)

Old English

1 entries
  • hēo pron (person)

Old French

1 entries
  • ele pron (person)

Old Galician-Portuguese

1 entries
  • ela pron (person)

Old Irish

1 entries
  • pron (person)

Old Occitan

1 entries
  • ella pron (person)

Ossetian

1 entries
  • уый pron (person)

Pannonian Rusyn

1 entries
  • вона pron (person)

Pashto

2 entries
  • دا pron (person)
  • هغه pron (person)

Pela

1 entries
  • jɔ̃³¹ pron (person)

Piedmontese

1 entries
  • chila pron (person)

Pipil

2 entries
  • yaha pron (person)
  • yaja pron (person)

Pirahã

1 entries
  • hi pron (person)

Pitjantjatjara

4 entries
  • ngaa pron (person)
  • nyara pron (person)
  • pala pron (person)
  • palunya pron (person)

Polish

1 entries
  • ona pron (person)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • ela pron (person)

Quechua

1 entries
  • pay pron (person)

Rapa Nui

1 entries
  • ia pron (person)

Romani

1 entries
  • oj pron (person)

Romanian

2 entries
  • dumneaei pron (person)
  • ea pron (person)

Romansch

1 entries
  • ella pron (person)

Russian

1 entries
  • она́ pron (person)

Scottish Gaelic

2 entries
  • i (nonemphatic) pron (person)
  • ise pron (person)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries
  • òna pron (person)
  • о̀на pron (person)

Sicilian

1 entries
  • idda pron (person)

Sidamo

1 entries
  • ise pron (person)

Sinhalese

1 entries
  • pron (person)

Skolt Sami

1 entries
  • son pron (person)

Slovak

1 entries
  • ona pron (person)

Slovene

1 entries
  • ôna pron (person)

Southern Altai

1 entries
  • ол pron (person)

Southern Sami

1 entries
  • dïhte pron (person)

Spanish

1 entries
  • ella pron (person)

Swahili

1 entries
  • yeye pron (person)

Swedish

1 entries
  • hon pron (person)

Sylheti

2 entries
  • ꠔꠣꠁ pron (person)
  • ꠔꠣꠁꠘ pron (person)

Tagalog

1 entries
  • siya pron (person)

Tajik

1 entries
  • ӯ pron (person)

Taos

1 entries
  • ą́wąną pron (person)

Tatar

1 entries
  • ул pron (person)

Telugu

1 entries
  • ఆమె pron (person)

Teochew

1 entries
  • pron (person)

Thai

3 entries
  • หล่อน pron (person)
  • เขา pron (person)
  • เธอ pron (person)

Tigrinya

1 entries
  • ንሳ pron (person)

Tlingit

1 entries
  • pron (person)

Tooro

1 entries
  • uwe pron (person)

Tupinambá

1 entries
  • a'e pron (person)

Turkish

1 entries
  • o pron (person)

Turkmen

1 entries
  • ol pron (person)

Udmurt

1 entries
  • со pron (person)

Ugaritic

1 entries
  • 𐎅𐎊 pron (person)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • вона́ pron (person)

Unami

1 entries
  • nàni pron (person)

Upper Sorbian

1 entries
  • wona pron (person)

Urdu

2 entries
  • وہ pron (person)
  • یہ pron (person)

Uyghur

1 entries
  • ئۇ pron (person)

Uzbek

1 entries
  • u pron (person)

Venetan

1 entries
  • eła pron (person)

Vietnamese

4 entries
  • bà ấy pron (person)
  • chị ấy pron (person)
  • cô ấy pron (person)
  • pron (person)

Vlax-Romani

1 entries
  • voj pron (person)

Volapük

1 entries
  • of pron (person)

Walloon

3 entries
  • ele pron (person)
  • elle pron (person)
  • leye pron (person)

Welsh

1 entries
  • hi pron (person)

West-Frisian

2 entries
  • hja pron (person)
  • sy pron (person)

Western Neo-Aramaic

1 entries
  • ܗܝܗ pron (person)

White Hmong

1 entries
  • nws pron (person)

Wolof

1 entries
  • moom pron (person)

Wu Chinese

1 entries
  • pron (person)

Yiddish

1 entries
  • זי pron (person)

Yoruba

2 entries
  • á pron (person)
  • ó pron (person)

Yucatec Maya

1 entries
  • letiʼ pron (person)

Yámana

1 entries
  • kitu pron (person)

Zazaki

1 entries
  • a (diq) pron (person)

Zhuang

1 entries
  • de pron (person)

Zulu

4 entries
  • lona pron (person)
  • lona pron (person)
  • sona pron (person)
  • wona pron (person)

ǃKung

1 entries
  • ha pron (person)

ǃXóõ

4 entries
  • ã`h pron (person)
  • ã̀hʻã̀ pron (person)
  • èh pron (person)
  • èhʻè pron (person)

Sample sentences

35 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Whatever I do, she says I can do better.

Source: tatoeba (1472)

"She likes music." "So do I."

Source: tatoeba (1520)

"I can't think with that noise," she said, as she stared at the typewriter.

Source: tatoeba (1591)

To be perfect she lacked just one defect.

Source: tatoeba (1636)

Showing 4 of 35 available sentences.

Common questions

What are the closest synonyms for "she"?

Closest matches include -a, -ette, -trix, alter, alter ego.

How should I check whether a synonym fits "she"?

Compare the replacement against real sentence context. This entry includes sample sentences so you can check tone, grammar, and meaning before swapping words.

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