sia
\ˈsi.a\
The verdict
“sia” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,967) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,967
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Son propre, sa propre, leur propre, sien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sia · sia · French
sia · rank #27,967 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,967
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sentaient
Nearest frequency peer: sentaient (-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 « sia »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- secouru
secouru
72,037 corpus weight
- secousses
secousses
72,036 corpus weight
- sentaient
sentaient
72,035 corpus weight
- sia
sia
72,034 corpus weight
- sifflets
sifflets
72,033 corpus weight
- signalées
signalées
72,032 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « sia » 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 | sia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈsi.a\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « sia »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sia is neighbouring look-alikes ("st", "su", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \ˈsi.a\. Frequency #27,967 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Son propre, sa propre, leur propre, sien.".
sia has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "st", "su", "so", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sia, spelled S-I-A.
Definition
- 1Son propre, sa propre, leur propre, sien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Li manĝis kun sia edzino.
Johano donis al Alfredo sian kukon.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sia", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).