seer
/sɪə(ɹ)/
"seer" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“seer” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,713) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,713
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-seer · seer · English
seer · rank #28,713 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,713
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH scrubbed
Nearest frequency peer: scrubbed (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “seer”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- schism
schism
71,290 corpus weight
- scrubbed
scrubbed
71,289 corpus weight
- seer
seer
71,288 corpus weight
- sepsis
sepsis
71,287 corpus weight
- Seward
Seward
71,286 corpus weight
- sharpening
sharpening
71,285 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “seer” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | seer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɪə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #28,713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “seer”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for seer is neighbouring look-alikes ("she", "set", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /sɪə(ɹ)/. Frequency #28,713 among 6,566 “S” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for seer, with forms such as "eser", "seerr", and "sere". 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, "she", "set", "sex", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English seere, equivalent to see + -er (“agent suffix”). The correct English form is seer, spelled S-E-E-R.
Definition
- 1One who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner.
- 2One who sees something; an eyewitness.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how seer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"But I must not forget to tell you that the lad was born on a Sunday, and had found a card with the four of clubs; therefore he was a seer, that is to say, he could see the supernatural people, but they could not see him."
As a seer of beautiful visions, or, shall we say, of visions of the beautiful, he is never weary of celebrating the poet and his vocation.
Etymology
From Middle English seere, equivalent to see + -er (“agent suffix”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eser
- seerr
- sere
- sseer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of seer - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).