se
Letters
2 characters
Frequency Rank
#11
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
se is aSpanishpron. It means: (se reflexivo) Pronombre reflexivo anafórico que establece una correferencialidad con el sujeto de la oración en tercera persona. Equivalente al caso dativo, por lo que admite el refuerzo “a sí mis... Pronounced [se]. It ranks #11 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with su and sí.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | se |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pron |
| IPA | [se] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for se is 2 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [se]. Corpus data places it at rank #11 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for se in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "su", "sí", "so", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is se, spelled S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(se reflexivo) Pronombre reflexivo anafórico que establece una correferencialidad con el sujeto de la oración en tercera persona. Equivalente al caso dativo, por lo que admite el refuerzo “a sí mismo”.
- 2(se recíproco) Cuando el sujeto es plural o es múltiple, establece una referencia cruzada tal que todos los sujetos actúan de sujeto y objeto recíprocamente.
- 3(se no agentivo) En particular, uso del se reflexivo o se recíproco con fines no agentivos. NO admite el refuerzo “a sí mismo”.
- 4(se intransitivador) Unido a un verbo transitivo, da lugar a oraciones intransitivas pronominales desvinculando completamente al sujeto causador que estaba en la construcción transitiva.
- 5(se pasivo) Usado para formar la voz pasiva, similar al se intransitivador pero sin desvincular al agente causador.
- 6(se impersonal) Usado para formar oraciones sin sujeto gramatical.
- 7(se diacrítico) Convierte a un verbo en pronominal a secas, modificando también su contenido léxico.
- 8(se inherente) Acompaña a los verbos pronominales de forma obligatoria, sin que exista un equivalente no pronominal.
Frequency rank: #11 in Spanish
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