sies
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The verdict
“sies” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,209) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,209
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - archaisch: 2. Person Singular Konjunktiv Präsens Aktiv des Verbs esse
Corpus desk
Index DE-sies · sies · German
sies · rank #40,209 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,209
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sherry
Nearest frequency peer: Sherry (-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 „sies“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- seufzte
seufzte
59,795 corpus weight
- Shenzhen
Shenzhen
59,794 corpus weight
- Sherry
Sherry
59,793 corpus weight
- sies
sies
59,792 corpus weight
- Smileys
Smileys
59,791 corpus weight
- Sonderangeb…
Sonderangebot
59,790 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „sies“ 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 | sies |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #40,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „sies“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sies is neighbouring look-alikes ("SS", "SMS", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced […]. Frequency #40,209 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Gloss: "archaisch: 2. Person Singular Konjunktiv Präsens Aktiv des Verbs esse".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for sies, with forms such as "seis", "siess", and "sise". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SS", "SMS", "Sir", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is sies, spelled S-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1archaisch: 2. Person Singular Konjunktiv Präsens Aktiv des Verbs esse
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- seis
- siess
- sise
- ssies
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sies - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sies", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).