BdS
The verdict
“BdS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,218) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,218
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nationalsozialistischer Leiter einer Außenstelle des Reichssicherheitshauptamts
Corpus desk
Index DE-bds · BdS · German
BdS · rank #36,218 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,218
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bedienten
Nearest frequency peer: bedienten (+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 „BdS“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- barbier
barbier
63,786 corpus weight
- Bataillone
Bataillone
63,785 corpus weight
- BdS
BdS
63,783 corpus weight
- bedienten
bedienten
63,782 corpus weight
- berechnete
berechnete
63,781 corpus weight
- besoffene
besoffene
63,780 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „BdS“ 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 | BdS |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #36,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „BdS“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for BdS is neighbouring look-alikes ("be", "by", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #36,218 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Gloss: "nationalsozialistischer Leiter einer Außenstelle des Reichssicherheitshauptamts".
No generated misspelling entries exist for BdS in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is BdS, spelled B-D-S.
Definition
- 1nationalsozialistischer Leiter einer Außenstelle des Reichssicherheitshauptamts
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how BdS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Errichtung einer ähnlichen Behörde in Amsterdam hätte es Rauter, BdS Harster und schließlich ihrem Mann in Amsterdam, Willy Lages, ermöglichen sollen, alle bedeutsamen Aspekte der jüdischen Angelegenheiten in den Niederlanden zu kontrollieren.“
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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