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sean

noun, verb

sean is spelled S-E-A-N: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 20 times per million words in written English, the 4,224th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Sean, the name). As a noun, sean means “Dated form of seine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sean is seans.

How many letters and syllables are in sean?

Letters4: S-E-A-N
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing20 times per million words; the 4,224th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is sean?

Sean appears 20 times per million words in written English, the 4,224th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Sean, the name.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce sean?

    Sean has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Words people confuse with sean

    Also written: seine.

    Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

    What rhymes with sean?

    No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as sean.

    Spelled with the same letters in another order: sane, nase.

    Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

    Forms of sean

    • seans plural, present, singular, he/she/it
    • seaning participle, present
    • seaned participle, past

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    What does sean mean?

    The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

    noun

    1. 1

      datedDated form of seine.

    verb

    1. 1

      datedDated form of seine.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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