ses
[sɛs]
The verdict
“ses” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,610) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,610
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kontraktion von jsi + se
Corpus desk
Index DE-ses · ses · German
ses · rank #26,610 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,610
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sergeant
Nearest frequency peer: Sergeant (-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 „ses“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
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73,395 corpus weight
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Segmente
73,394 corpus weight
- Sendezeit
Sendezeit
73,393 corpus weight
- Sergeant
Sergeant
73,392 corpus weight
- ses
ses
73,391 corpus weight
- Sirenen
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73,388 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „ses“ 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 | ses |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [sɛs] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,610 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „ses“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ses is neighbouring look-alikes ("so", "SV", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [sɛs]. Frequency #26,610 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Kontraktion von jsi + se".
No misspelling variants are generated for ses in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is ses, spelled S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Kontraktion von jsi + se
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Byl ses tam už podívat?
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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