# seems vs Sims

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### seems
*verb · IPA /siːmz/ · frequency rank #578*
third-person singular simple present indicative of seem

### Sims
*name · IPA /sɪmz/ · frequency rank #9,958*
A surname transferred from the given name.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/seems-vs-sims