seen
\siːn\
The verdict
“seen” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,534) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,534
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé du verbe to see.
Corpus desk
Index FR-seen · seen · French
seen · rank #41,534 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,534
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH seed
Nearest frequency peer: seed (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « seen »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- sautait
sautait
58,472 corpus weight
- Scheer
Scheer
58,470 corpus weight
- seed
seed
58,468 corpus weight
- seen
seen
58,467 corpus weight
- serval
serval
58,466 corpus weight
- shaker
shaker
58,464 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « seen » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des 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 | seen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \siːn\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #41,534 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « seen »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for seen is neighbouring look-alikes ("sn", "son", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \siːn\. Frequency #41,534 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Participe passé du verbe to see.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for seen, with forms such as "seenn", "sene", and "sseen". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sn", "son", "ses", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is seen, spelled S-E-E-N.
Definition
- 1Participe passé du verbe to see.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- seenn
- sene
- sseen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of seen - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).