DSM
The verdict
“DSM” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,222) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #45,222
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Klassifikationssystem zur Definition und Diagnostik psychischer Erkrankungen
Corpus desk
Index DE-dsm · DSM · German
DSM · rank #45,222 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,222
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Dressler
Nearest frequency peer: Dressler (-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 „DSM“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Dominikaner
Dominikaner
54,782 corpus weight
- Dressler
Dressler
54,780 corpus weight
- DSM
DSM
54,779 corpus weight
- Duderstadt
Duderstadt
54,778 corpus weight
- durchbrach
durchbrach
54,776 corpus weight
- durchforsten
durchforsten
54,775 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „DSM“ 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 | DSM |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #45,222 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „DSM“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for DSM is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "DW", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #45,222 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Klassifikationssystem zur Definition und Diagnostik psychischer Erkrankungen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for DSM, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "DW", "dz", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is DSM, spelled D-S-M.
Definition
- 1Klassifikationssystem zur Definition und Diagnostik psychischer Erkrankungen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how DSM appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ein Vorzug von DSM ist die Standardisierung der einzelnen Merkmale, ein Vorteil von ICD ist die internationale Ausrichtung.“
„Es kam so weit, dass die Sozialarbeiterin das DSM einfach auf den Fußboden warf und ich dann das Bild, das dabei zufällig aufschlug, eine Woche lang nachzustellen versuchte.“
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).