sein
[ˈzaɪ̯n]
The verdict
“sein” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,601) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #45,601
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ser, estar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sein · sein · Spanish
sein · rank #45,601 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,601
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH seguiste
Nearest frequency peer: seguiste (-1 rank slots)
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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “sein”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- samurái
samurái
54,404 corpus weight
- Saturday
Saturday
54,403 corpus weight
- seguiste
seguiste
54,401 corpus weight
- sein
sein
54,400 corpus weight
- septentrion…
septentrionales
54,398 corpus weight
- Servia
Servia
54,397 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “sein” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | sein |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈzaɪ̯n] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #45,601 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “sein”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sein is neighbouring look-alikes ("sí", "ser", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈzaɪ̯n]. Frequency #45,601 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Ser, estar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for sein, with forms such as "esin", "seinn", and "seni". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sí", "ser", "son", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is sein, spelled S-E-I-N.
Definition
- 1Ser, estar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sein appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sie ist Brasilianerin.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esin
- seinn
- seni
- ssein
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sein - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sein", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).