CMS
The verdict
“CMS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,986) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,986
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abkürzung für Content Management System
Corpus desk
Index DE-cms · CMS · German
CMS · rank #29,986 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,986
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Cn
Nearest frequency peer: Cn (+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 „CMS“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Bündnisse
Bündnisse
70,020 corpus weight
- Bürgschaft
Bürgschaft
70,019 corpus weight
- Charleston
Charleston
70,018 corpus weight
- CMS
CMS
70,015 corpus weight
- Cn
Cn
70,014 corpus weight
- Colt
Colt
70,011 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „CMS“ 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 | CMS |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #29,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „CMS“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CMS is neighbouring look-alikes ("CT", "Cs", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #29,986 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Abkürzung für Content Management System".
CMS doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CT", "Cs", "Cr", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is CMS, spelled C-M-S.
Definition
- 1Abkürzung für Content Management System
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CMS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„CMSs are often used to run websites containing blogs, news, and shopping. Many corporate and marketing websites use CMSs. CMSs typically aim to avoid the need for hand coding, but may support it for specific elements or entire pages.“
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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