sie
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#18
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sie is aGermanpron. It means: Personalpronomen 3. Person Femininum Singular, welches eine zuvor benutzte Nominalphrase im Femininum (Person, Tier, Sache oder Abstraktum) ersetzt oder bei fehlendem oder weit entferntem Bezugswor... Pronounced [ziː]. It ranks #18 in German word frequency. Often confused with so and SV.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pron |
| IPA | [ziː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for sie is 3 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ziː]. Corpus data places it at rank #18 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sie in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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, 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 sie, spelled S-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Personalpronomen 3. Person Femininum Singular, welches eine zuvor benutzte Nominalphrase im Femininum (Person, Tier, Sache oder Abstraktum) ersetzt oder bei fehlendem oder weit entferntem Bezugswort auf eine Person weiblichen natürlichen Geschlechts verweist
- 2Personalpronomen 3. Person alle Genera Plural, welches eine zuvor benutzte Nominalphrase im Plural (Personen, Tiere, Sachen oder Abstrakta) ersetzt oder direkt auf mehrere Personen verweist
- 3Personalpronomen 3. Person alle Genera Plural, welches auf nicht näher bezeichnete Personen verweist; Unbekannte oder man
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #18 in German
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