bb
The verdict
“bb” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,817) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,817
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bye-bye ‚auf Wiedersehen‘
Corpus desk
Index DE-bb · bb · German
bb · rank #10,817 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,817
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bauernhof
Nearest frequency peer: Bauernhof (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “bb”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- ausschalten
ausschalten
89,187 corpus weight
- ausweichen
ausweichen
89,186 corpus weight
- Bauernhof
Bauernhof
89,185 corpus weight
- bb
bb
89,184 corpus weight
- bedeutend
bedeutend
89,183 corpus weight
- Beliebtheit
Beliebtheit
89,182 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “bb” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | bb |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #10,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “bb” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bb is neighbouring look-alikes ("be", "by", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #10,817 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Gloss: "bye-bye ‚auf Wiedersehen‘".
bb has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "be", "by", "Br", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is bb, spelled B-B.
Definition
- 1bye-bye ‚auf Wiedersehen‘
Synonyms
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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- "bb" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "be". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #10,817 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.