seg
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The verdict
“seg” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #49,245) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #49,245
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich
Corpus desk
Index DE-seg · seg · German
seg · rank #49,245 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,245
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Segelschiff
Nearest frequency peer: Segelschiff (+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 „seg“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- schwules
schwules
50,759 corpus weight
- Schälchen
Schälchen
50,758 corpus weight
- seg
seg
50,756 corpus weight
- Segelschiff
Segelschiff
50,755 corpus weight
- Seifenblasen
Seifenblasen
50,754 corpus weight
- selbsterklä…
selbsterklärend
50,753 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „seg“ 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 | seg |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #49,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „seg“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for seg is neighbouring look-alikes ("so", "SV", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced […]. Frequency #49,245 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Gloss: "sich".
seg has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "so", "SV", "SS", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is seg, spelled S-E-G.
Definition
- 1sich
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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