BfS
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The verdict
“BfS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,780) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,780
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz
Corpus desk
Index DE-bfs · BfS · German
BfS · rank #48,780 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,780
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Beweislage
Nearest frequency peer: Beweislage (-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 „BfS“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- betrete
betrete
51,225 corpus weight
- Bevölkerung…
Bevölkerungen
51,223 corpus weight
- Beweislage
Beweislage
51,222 corpus weight
- BfS
BfS
51,221 corpus weight
- Bibeln
Bibeln
51,220 corpus weight
- bible
bible
51,219 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „BfS“ 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 | BfS |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #48,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „BfS“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for BfS is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "Br", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #48,780 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for BfS, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "Br", "Bi", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is BfS, spelled B-F-S.
Definition
- 1Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how BfS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Zwischen 2001 und 2003 erteilte das BfS die ersten Genehmigungen zur Errichtung von dezentralen Zwischenlagern für abgebrannte Kernbrennstoffe an den Standorten der deutschen Kernkraftwerke.“
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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