sea
[siː]
The verdict
“sea” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,518) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,518
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Meer
Corpus desk
Index DE-sea · sea · German
sea · rank #11,518 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,518
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schwingen
Nearest frequency peer: schwingen (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „sea“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Schleife
Schleife
88,486 corpus weight
- Schnäppchen
Schnäppchen
88,485 corpus weight
- schwingen
schwingen
88,484 corpus weight
- sea
sea
88,483 corpus weight
- setz
setz
88,482 corpus weight
- sexueller
sexueller
88,481 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „sea“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sea |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [siː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #11,518 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „sea“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sea is neighbouring look-alikes ("so", "SV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [siː]. Frequency #11,518 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Gloss: "das Meer".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sea, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "so", "SV", "SS", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is sea, spelled S-E-A.
Definition
- 1das Meer
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sea appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We sailed on the open sea.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).