sis
\si\
The verdict
“sis” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,157) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,157
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est situé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sis · sis · French
sis · rank #19,157 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,157
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sid
Nearest frequency peer: sid (-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 « sis »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- scouts
scouts
80,847 corpus weight
- shoot
shoot
80,846 corpus weight
- sid
sid
80,845 corpus weight
- sis
sis
80,844 corpus weight
- souverainis…
souverainiste
80,842 corpus weight
- spirit
spirit
80,841 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « sis » 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 | sis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \si\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « sis »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sis is neighbouring look-alikes ("st", "su", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \si\. Frequency #19,157 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Qui est situé.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sis in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sis, spelled S-I-S.
Definition
- 1Qui est situé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plusieurs personnes étaient groupées au bout du village, dans la cour d’une méchante auberge, sise à l’embranchement des routes de Nemours et de Moret.
Dans notre édition du 4 septembre 2011, nous avions consacré un long reportage à cette fabuleuse grotte préhistorique nichée dans le flanc de l’Adrar Gueldaman. Elle est sise dans la commune de Bouhamza, à un jet de pierre de la ville d’Akbou, dans la wilaya de Béjaïa et les premières fouilles avaient révélé les vestiges liés à la présence humaine dans ce…
This word in other languages
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).