sien
[si̯ɛn]
The verdict
“sien” is uncommon German (frequency #77,321 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,321
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Plural des Substantivs seno
Corpus desk
Index DE-sien · sien · German
sien · rank #77,321 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,321
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH sicherst
Nearest frequency peer: sicherst (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „sien“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- sher
sher
22,685 corpus weight
- sicherst
sicherst
22,681 corpus weight
- sien
sien
22,680 corpus weight
- Sikh
Sikh
22,679 corpus weight
- Sisyphos
Sisyphos
22,676 corpus weight
- Sittlichkeit
Sittlichkeit
22,675 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „sien“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sien |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [si̯ɛn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #77,321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „sien“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
sien is uncommon German at frequency #77,321 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [si̯ɛn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genitiv Plural des Substantivs seno".
Zero misspellings are on record for sien in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is sien, spelled S-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Plural des Substantivs seno
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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