she
\ʃi\
The verdict
“she” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,015) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,015
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Elle. Se réfère à une femme de la troisième personne du sujet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-she · she · French
she · rank #16,015 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,015
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sets
Nearest frequency peer: sets (-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 « she »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- serbes
serbes
83,989 corpus weight
- servante
servante
83,988 corpus weight
- sets
sets
83,987 corpus weight
- she
she
83,986 corpus weight
- Slovaquie
Slovaquie
83,985 corpus weight
- sri
sri
83,984 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « she » 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 | she |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \ʃi\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « she »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for she is neighbouring look-alikes ("si", "st", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced \ʃi\. Frequency #16,015 among 6,032 “S” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for she in our index, 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is she, spelled S-H-E.
Definition
- 1Elle. Se réfère à une femme de la troisième personne du sujet.
- 2Il, elle. Se réfère à un bateau, à un navire ou à une voiture, ou, moins souvent (et plus démodé), à un pays ou à une ville.
- 3Il. Se réfère à une personne indéfinie de la troisième personne du sujet, arbitrairement utilisé avec he pour être non sexiste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how she appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I asked Mary, but she said she didn’t know.
She is a beautiful boat, isn’t she?
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).