sievssindConfusable pair

Quick tell: sie is a noun, sind is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“sie” is a noun and “sind” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#30,808
“sie” frequency rank
#48,796
“sind” frequency rank
79604
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature sie sind
Definition Langue de la famille austronésienne parlée au Vanuatu. Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif à la forme active de sein.

Letter map: sie vs sind

Shared letters muted; letters that set sie and sind apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. sie runs 3 letters (CVV) against sind's 4 (CVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

3 ch
sie
4 ch
sind

Part-of-speech tell for sie / sind

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: sie is anoun and sindaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 79604, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sie is recorded at frequency rank #30,808, classified as anoun. sind is at rank #48,796, tagged as averb, pronounced \zɪnt\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 79604, this pair ranks #22,880 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of sie vs sind

Shared letters: is. Private to "sie": e. Private to "sind": dn.

"sie" · 3 letters · shape CVV  ·  "sind" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • sind ← isnd · sidn · sindd · sinnd · snid · ssind

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "sie" and "sind" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "sie" is a noun and "sind" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "sie" vs "sind" - which ranks higher?
"sie" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #30,808 in our French list, against #48,796 for "sind". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "sie" and "sind".

  • Full dictionary entry for "sie" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "sind" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #22,880 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "sie" and "sind" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Sikh vs sind". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #22,880 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list