Which to use
“sensed” is an adjective and “senses” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #19,202
- “sensed” frequency rank
- #8,088
- “senses” frequency rank
- 27290
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | sensed | senses |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Having a specified number or kind of senses. | plural of sense |
Letter map: sensed vs senses
Shared letters muted; letters that set sensed and senses apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. sensed and senses follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Part-of-speech tell for sensed / senses
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: sensed is anadjective and sensesanoun. On the page they differ by a single letter - d in “sensed” becomes s in “senses”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27290, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
sensed is recorded at frequency rank #19,202, classified as anadj. senses is at rank #8,088, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈsɛnsɪz/.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 27290, this pair ranks #380,100 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of sensed vs senses
Shared letters: ens. Private to "sensed": d. Private to "senses": -.
"sensed" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC · "senses" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
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- Full dictionary entry for "sensed" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "senses" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #380,100 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "sensed" and "senses" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sensed vs Spenser". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #380,100 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.