sii
\ˈsii\
The verdict
“sii” is uncommon French (frequency #71,064 among 394,209 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,064
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de essere.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sii |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈsii\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #71,064 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sii” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sii is uncommon French at frequency #71,064 among 394,209 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈsii\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de essere.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sii, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 sii, spelled S-I-I.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de essere.
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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Using “sii”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-I-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.