seidvsSuiConfusable pair

Quick tell: seid is a verb, Sui is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“seid” is a verb and “Sui” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#843
“seid” frequency rank
#28,407
“Sui” frequency rank
29250
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature seid Sui
Definition [1] 2. Person Plural Präsens Indikativ des Verbs sein Ort in der pakistanischen Provinz Belutschistan

Letter map: seid vs Sui

Shared letters muted; letters that set seid and Sui apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
seid
3 ch
Sui

Part-of-speech tell for seid / Sui

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: seid is averb and Suianame. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 29250, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

seid is recorded at frequency rank #843, classified as averb, pronounced [zaɪ̯t]. Sui is at rank #28,407, tagged as aname, pronounced […].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 29250, this pair ranks #1,770,341 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of seid vs Sui

Shared letters: is. Private to "seid": de. Private to "Sui": u.

"seid" · 4 letters · shape CVVC  ·  "Sui" · 3 letters · shape CVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • seidesid · sedi · seidd · sied · sseid

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "seid" for "Sui" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "seid" is a verb and "Sui" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "seid" vs "Sui" - which ranks higher?
"seid" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #843 in our German list, against #28,407 for "Sui". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pair "seid" vs "Sui" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "seid" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Sui" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,770,341 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "seid" and "Sui" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs Sui". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #1,770,341 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list