sen
/sɛn/noun
sen is spelled S-E-N: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,009th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sen means “Self” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sen is sens.
How many letters and syllables are in sen?
| Letters | 3: S-E-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 10 times per million words; the 7,009th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 sen?
Sen appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,009th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce sen?
- /sɛn/
Sen 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-sen.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with sen?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as sen.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: ens.
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 sen
- sens plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sen mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Self.
"Hear all, see all, say nowt. Eyt all, sup all, pay nowt. An if ivver tha does owt fer nowt, mek sure tha does it fer thi sen."
- 2
A unit of Japanese currency, worth one hundredth of a yen.
- 3
A coin of this value.
- 4
A unit of Indonesian currency, worth one hundredth of a rupiah.
- 5
A unit of Malaysian currency, worth one hundredth of a ringgit.
- 6
A coin of this value.
- 7
A unit of length equal 20 wa, 40 meters.
noun
- 1
UKInitialism of special educational needs.
noun
- 1
Alternative form of Sen..
- 2
Abbreviation of seniors.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does sen come from?
From a syncopation of Middle English selven, selfen, variants of selfe, self. More at self.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).