sia
The verdict
“sia” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,768) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,768
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sein(e) [eigene(r, -s)], ihr(e) [eigene(r, -s)]
Corpus desk
Index DE-sia · sia · German
sia · rank #32,768 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,768
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sexvideos
Nearest frequency peer: Sexvideos (-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 „sia“
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What this shows Balken platzieren „sia“ 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 | sia |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #32,768 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „sia“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sia is neighbouring look-alikes ("so", "SV", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #32,768 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Gloss: "sein(e) [eigene(r, -s)], ihr(e) [eigene(r, -s)]".
sia doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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 carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is sia, spelled S-I-A.
Definition
- 1sein(e) [eigene(r, -s)], ihr(e) [eigene(r, -s)]
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bona patrino amas sian infanon.
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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