sees
/siːz/
"sees" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sees” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,558) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #2,558
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of see
Corpus desk
Index EN-sees · sees · English
sees · rank #2,558 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,558
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH saving
Nearest frequency peer: saving (-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 “sees”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- rural
rural
97,446 corpus weight
- Ryan
Ryan
97,445 corpus weight
- saving
saving
97,444 corpus weight
- sees
sees
97,443 corpus weight
- singing
singing
97,442 corpus weight
- Spain
Spain
97,441 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “sees” 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 | sees |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /siːz/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,558 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “sees”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sees is neighbouring look-alikes ("SS", "she", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /siːz/. Frequency #2,558 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of see".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for sees, with forms such as "eses", "seess", and "sese". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SS", "she", "set", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is sees, spelled S-E-E-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of see
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eses
- seess
- sese
- ssees
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sees - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sees", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).