Hurts or hurts is the third person singular ( he, she, it ) form of "hurt", meaning to injure or cause pain, physically or mentally--
Let go of my foot; that hurts!
Don't yell; that hurts his feelings.
Her attitude hurts business, but she doesn't seem to want to change.
Hurts may also be the plural of "hurt", meaning an injury or pain--
He remembered years later, the special bandages she put on his little hurts.
His hurts and scrapes were forgotten, as soon as he saw the ice cream truck.
Hertz or hertz ( rhymes with hurts ) is a unit of frequency, equal to one cycle per second--
Radio waves are measured in hertz.
A blue whale will vocalize at 15-20 hertz.
Now that you know that, you can say--
"He learned that radio waves are called hertz, and now he's sure that it hurts him to listen."
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