BGB
[beːɡeːˈbeː]
The verdict
“BGB” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,917) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,917
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (der Bundesrepublik Deutschland)
Corpus desk
Index DE-bgb · BGB · German
BGB · rank #5,917 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,917
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH beschloss
Nearest frequency peer: beschloss (-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 „BGB“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Behinderung
Behinderung
94,087 corpus weight
- beruhigt
beruhigt
94,086 corpus weight
- beschloss
beschloss
94,085 corpus weight
- BGB
BGB
94,084 corpus weight
- billiger
billiger
94,083 corpus weight
- blöde
blöde
94,082 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „BGB“ 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 | BGB |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [beːɡeːˈbeː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „BGB“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for BGB is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "Br", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [beːɡeːˈbeː]. Frequency #5,917 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (der Bundesrepublik Deutschland)".
BGB doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "Br", "Bi", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is BGB, spelled B-G-B.
Definition
- 1Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (der Bundesrepublik Deutschland)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how BGB appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
§ 823 Abs. 2 BGB, mit gleicher Bedeutung: § 823 II BGB
„Nach dem BGB haftet der Erbe für Nachlassverbindlichkeiten mit seinem Vermögen, das heißt seinem Eigenvermögen und dem Nachlass, unbeschränkt, aber beschränkbar.“
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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