ASB
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The verdict
“ASB” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,588) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,588
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund
Corpus desk
Index DE-asb · ASB · German
ASB · rank #38,588 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,588
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Armutsgrenze
Nearest frequency peer: Armutsgrenze (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „ASB“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Arkaden
Arkaden
61,415 corpus weight
- Armutsgrenze
Armutsgrenze
61,414 corpus weight
- ASB
ASB
61,413 corpus weight
- atmosphäris…
atmosphärische
61,412 corpus weight
- ATX
ATX
61,411 corpus weight
- Aufbauten
Aufbauten
61,410 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „ASB“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | ASB |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #38,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „ASB“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ASB is neighbouring look-alikes ("at", "AZ", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #38,588 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund".
ASB doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "at", "AZ", "AV", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is ASB, spelled A-S-B.
Definition
- 1Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ASB appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Zu dem Verkehrsunfall ist ein RTW vom ASB angerückt.
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ASB", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).