she
[ʃiː]
The verdict
“she” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #11,521 in German word frequency and used as a pronoun.
- #11,521
- frequency rank, German
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - sie
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 | she |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [ʃiː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #11,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “she” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for she is 3 letters long, classified as a pronoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃiː]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,521 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "sie".
No misspelling variants are generated for she in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is she, spelled S-H-E.
Definition
- 1sie
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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Using “she”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-H-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ʃiː] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “so” - see the side-by-side comparison. she vs so
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.