Sinne vs sint, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“Sinne” is a noun and “sint” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#1,122
“Sinne” frequency rank: #33,815
“sint” frequency rank: 34937
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	Sinne	sint
Definition	Variante für den Dativ Singular des Substantivs Sinn	3. Person Plural Konjunktiv Präsens Aktiv des Verbs esse

Letter map: Sinne vs sint

Shared letters muted; letters that set Sinne and sint apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch

Sinne

4 ch

sint

Role in the sentence - Sinne and sint

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Sinne is anoun and sintaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34937, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Sinne is recorded at frequency rank #1,122, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈzɪnə]. sint is at rank #33,815, tagged as averb, 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 34937, this pair ranks #1,651,847 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Sinne vs sint

Shared letters: ins. Private to "Sinne": e. Private to "sint": t.

"Sinne" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "sint" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

Sinne ← isnne · sine · sinen · snine · ssinne
sint ← isnt · sinnt · sintt · sitn · snit · ssint

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Sinne" for "sint" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Sinne" is a noun and "sint" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "Sinne" vs "sint" - which ranks higher?

"Sinne" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,122 in our German list, against #33,815 for "sint". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "Sinne" and "sint". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "Sinne" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "sint" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,651,847 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"Sinne" and "sint" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs sint". 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 #1,651,847 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.