sie
The verdict
“sie” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #30,808) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #30,808
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue de la famille austronésienne parlée au Vanuatu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sie · sie · French
sie · rank #30,808 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,808
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH servies
Nearest frequency peer: servies (-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 « sie »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- seat
seat
69,196 corpus weight
- seaux
seaux
69,195 corpus weight
- servies
servies
69,194 corpus weight
- sie
sie
69,193 corpus weight
- silencieuse…
silencieusement
69,192 corpus weight
- Silvia
Silvia
69,191 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « sie » 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 | sie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #30,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « sie »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sie is neighbouring look-alikes ("st", "su", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #30,808 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Langue de la famille austronésienne parlée au Vanuatu.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sie in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "st", "su", "so", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sie, spelled S-I-E.
Definition
- 1Langue de la famille austronésienne parlée au Vanuatu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De nos jours, la population entière de l’île utilise la langue sie (autrefois appelée yoku, ou des variantes de l’enyau), […]
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 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).