ses
[ˈses]
The verdict
“ses” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,012) as an article. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,012
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Las
Corpus desk
Index ES-ses · ses · Spanish
ses · rank #27,012 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,012
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH señorito
Nearest frequency peer: señorito (+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 “ses”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- sedición
sedición
72,993 corpus weight
- sensata
sensata
72,992 corpus weight
- sepultado
sepultado
72,991 corpus weight
- ses
ses
72,989 corpus weight
- señorito
señorito
72,988 corpus weight
- slam
slam
72,985 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ses” 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 | ses |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Article |
| IPA | [ˈses] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,012 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ses”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ses is neighbouring look-alikes ("su", "sí", …), not just typos; it is anarticle pronounced [ˈses]. Frequency #27,012 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Las".
ses doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is ses, spelled S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Las
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).