ses
"ses" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ses” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,491) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,491
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of sess (sensimilla)
Corpus desk
Index EN-ses · ses · English
ses · rank #20,491 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,491
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH serene
Nearest frequency peer: serene (-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 “ses”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- sectarian
sectarian
79,513 corpus weight
- seminal
seminal
79,512 corpus weight
- serene
serene
79,511 corpus weight
- ses
ses
79,510 corpus weight
- seventies
seventies
79,509 corpus weight
- sharpe
sharpe
79,507 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “ses” 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 | ses |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #20,491 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “ses”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ses is neighbouring look-alikes ("so", "SI", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #20,491 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of sess (sensimilla)".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ses, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "so", "SI", "SS", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 ses, spelled S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of sess (sensimilla)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hit the West, smoke some of that ses, you’ll probably pass out when it reach your dome.
[GDP] And I rest all day. And I stress all day. Smoke ses all day. I’m depressed all day.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).