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ses

/sɪz/noun

ses is spelled S-E-S: 3 letters. It appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,356th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, ses means “plural of se” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in ses?

Letters3: S-E-S
In writing1.9 times per million words; the 20,356th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 ses?

Ses appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,356th 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 ses?

  • /sɪz/
  • /siːz/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-SES.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with ses

Also written: sess.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with ses?

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

Spelled with the same letters in another order: ess.

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).

What does ses mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    plural of se (a form of se)

  2. 2

    Alternative spelling of sess (sensimilla)

noun

as SES
  1. 1

    Initialism of sustainer engine start.

  2. 2

    Initialism of second engine start.

  3. 3

    Initialism of secondary engine start.

  4. 4

    Initialism of small Edison screw.

  5. 5

    Initialism of socioeconomic status; the economic and social position in relation to others, based on various factors such as income, occupation and education.

noun

as SEs
  1. 1

    plural of SE (a form of SE)

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

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