Which to use
“sind” and “sinn” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #48,796
- “sind” frequency rank
- #43,150
- “sinn” frequency rank
- 91946
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | sind | sinn |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif à la forme active de sein. | Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de sinnen. |
Where the eye mixes sind and sinn
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. sind and sinn follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: sind vs sinn
A purely visual mix-up. sind (\zɪnt\) and sinn (\zɪn\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by a single letter - d in “sind” becomes n in “sinn”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 91946, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
sind is recorded at frequency rank #48,796, classified as averb, pronounced \zɪnt\. sinn is at rank #43,150, tagged as averb, pronounced \zɪn\.
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 91946, this pair ranks #3,391 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of sind vs sinn
Shared letters: ins. Private to "sind": d. Private to "sinn": -.
"sind" · 4 letters · shape CVCC · "sinn" · 4 letters · shape CVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "sind" and "sinn" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "sind" or "sinn" show up more?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "sind" and "sinn" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "sind" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "sinn" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #3,391 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "sind" and "sinn" 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 #3,391 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.