Seine
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#96
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Seine is aGermanname. It means: drittlängster Fluss Frankreichs, der in Burgund entspringt, Paris durchfließt und in den Ärmelkanal mündet Pronounced [ˈzɛːn]. It ranks #96 in German word frequency. Often confused with sie and sin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Seine |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | [ˈzɛːn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Seine is 5 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈzɛːn]. Corpus data places it at rank #96 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "drittlängster Fluss Frankreichs, der in Burgund entspringt, Paris durchfließt und in den Ärmelkanal mündet".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for Seine, with forms such as "esine", "seinne", and "senie". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sie", "sin", "sind", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Seine, spelled S-E-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1drittlängster Fluss Frankreichs, der in Burgund entspringt, Paris durchfließt und in den Ärmelkanal mündet
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esine,seinne,senie,siene,sseine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Seine
Misspelling Variants of "Seine"
Frequency rank: #96 in German
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