ser
[sɛ]
The verdict
“ser” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,824) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,824
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sein
Corpus desk
Index DE-ser · ser · German
ser · rank #16,824 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,824
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH sensibel
Nearest frequency peer: sensibel (-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 „ser“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Schreiner
Schreiner
83,180 corpus weight
- schulischen
schulischen
83,179 corpus weight
- sensibel
sensibel
83,178 corpus weight
- ser
ser
83,177 corpus weight
- seven
seven
83,176 corpus weight
- Shaw
Shaw
83,175 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „ser“ 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 | ser |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [sɛ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „ser“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ser is neighbouring look-alikes ("so", "SV", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [sɛ]. Frequency #16,824 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Gloss: "sein".
ser doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "so", "SV", "SS", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is ser, spelled S-E-R.
Definition
- 1sein
Synonyms
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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