b.
The verdict
“b.” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 2
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abkürzung für bei, beim
Corpus desk
Index DE-b · b. · German
b. · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | b. |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 2 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „b.“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
b. is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anabbreviation. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abkürzung für bei, beim".
Zero misspellings are on record for b. in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 b., spelled B-..
Definition
- 1Abkürzung für bei, beim
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how b. appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bernau b. Berlin
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