# send

> English word · Verb · IPA /sɛnd/ · frequency rank #817

## Definitions
1. To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).
2. To get one going; move to excitement or rapture; to delight or thrill.
3. To bring to a certain condition, to drive.
4. To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message or do an errand.
5. To cause to be or to happen; to bring; bring about.
6. To cause to be or to happen; to bring; bring about.
7. To pitch.
8. To climb a route without falling.
9. To pursue (a course of action) committedly, enthusiastically, and often recklessly; go for.
10. To care.
11. To call out or diss a specific person in a diss track.
12. To give (someone) a lift, to drive (someone) to another place.

## Etymology
From Middle English senden, from Old English sendan (“to send, cause to go”), from Proto-West Germanic *sandijan, from Proto-Germanic *sandijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sont-eye- (“to cause to go”), causative of *sent- (“to walk, travel”). The noun derives from the verb.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian seende (“to send”), Dutch zenden (“to send”), German senden (“to send”), Danish and Norwegian sende (“to send”), Swedish sända (“to send”), Icelandic senda (“to send”). Related also to Old English sand, sond (“a sending, mission, message”). See also sith.

## Easily confused with
- **set** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/send-vs-set)
- **son** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/send-vs-son)
- **sex** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/send-vs-sex)
- **sun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/send-vs-sun)
- **sin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/send-vs-sin)
- **SEO** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/send-vs-seo)
- **SEP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/send-vs-sep)
- **SNP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/send-vs-snp)
- **Sid** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/send-vs-sid)
- **ser** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/send-vs-ser)
- **sew** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/send-vs-sew)
- **STD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/send-vs-std)
- **ses** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/send-vs-ses)
- **SPD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/send-vs-spd)
- **sod** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/send-vs-sod)
- **SNL** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/send-vs-snl)
- **SSD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/send-vs-ssd)
- **Syd** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/send-vs-syd)
- **SEQ** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/send-vs-seq)
- **syn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/send-vs-syn)

## Common misspellings (6)
`esnd`, `sedn`, `sendd`, `sennd`, `sned`, `ssend`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/send