sie
/saɪ/verb, noun, pronoun
sie is spelled S-I-E: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 26,776th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, sie means “To sink; fall; drop” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in sie?
| Letters | 3: S-I-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.1 times per million words; the 26,776th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| 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 sie?
Sie appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 26,776th 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 sie?
- /saɪ/
As a pronoun (“Gender-neutral subject pronoun, grammatically equivalent to…”): /siː/.
Sie 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-sie.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with sie
Sounds like: sai, scye (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: shi.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with sie?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as sie.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: sei.
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 sie
- sies present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- sying participle, present
- sied participle, past
- sigh
- sey
- sye
- sir
- hir
- hirs
- hirself
- shi
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sie mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To sink; fall; drop.
- 2
To fall, as in a swoon; faint.
- 3
To drop, as water; trickle.
- 4
To sift.
- 5
To strain, as milk; filter.
noun
- 1
A drop.
pronoun
- 1
nonstandardrareGender-neutral subject pronoun, grammatically equivalent to the gendered pronouns he and she
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does sie come from?
From Middle English sien, from Old English sīgan (“to sink, descend”), from Proto-Germanic *sīganą, *sīhwaną (“to strain, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ- (“to pour, strain”). Cognate with Dutch zijgen (“to filter”), German seihen (“to strain, sieve”), Icelandic síga (“to lower”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).