le sien
\lə sjɛ̃\
The verdict
“le sien” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Possessif de la troisième personne du singulier au masculin singulier. Ce qui est à lui ou elle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-le-sien · le sien · French
le sien · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | le sien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \lə sjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « le sien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
le sien is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as apronoun, transcribed \lə sjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Possessif de la troisième personne du singulier au masculin singulier. Ce qui est à lui ou elle.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for le sien, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is le sien, spelled L-E- -S-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Possessif de la troisième personne du singulier au masculin singulier. Ce qui est à lui ou elle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how le sien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En ce cas, la fille a sur le frère puiné un avantage qui consiste en ce qu'elle a la propriété de sa part, si elle se marie , tandis que le frère puîné n'a que l’usufruit de la sienne. (Art. 268 et 346).
Le roi n’eût jamais souffert qu’un pavillon, autre que le sien, flottât à une corne d’artimon ou au sommet du grand mât ; […].
This word in other languages
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