ses
\se\
The verdict
“ses” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #67) as a determiner. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #67
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel des déterminants possessifs son et sa. Qui sont à lui ou à elle. Note d’usage : Un seul possesseur et plusieurs objets.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ses · ses · French
ses · rank #67 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #67
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH mon
Nearest frequency peer: mon (-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 « ses »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- était
était
99,937 corpus weight
- été
été
99,936 corpus weight
- mon
mon
99,935 corpus weight
- ses
ses
99,934 corpus weight
- lui
lui
99,933 corpus weight
- aussi
aussi
99,932 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ses » 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 | ses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Determiner |
| IPA | \se\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #67 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ses »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ses is neighbouring look-alikes ("si", "st", …), not just typos; it is adeterminer pronounced \se\. Frequency #67 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Pluriel des déterminants possessifs son et sa. Qui sont à lui ou à elle. Note d’usage : Un seul possesseur et plusieurs objets.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ses, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "si", "st", "su", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ses, spelled S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel des déterminants possessifs son et sa. Qui sont à lui ou à elle. Note d’usage : Un seul possesseur et plusieurs objets.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avant, ses parents étaient chouettes, mais depuis quelques mois, ils la fliquent, la surveillent.
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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