EZB
[eːt͡sɛtˈbeː]
The verdict
“EZB” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,364) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,364
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Europäische Zentralbank
Corpus desk
Index DE-ezb · EZB · German
EZB · rank #9,364 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,364
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH erlitt
Nearest frequency peer: erlitt (-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 „EZB“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- entfallen
entfallen
90,640 corpus weight
- entfernte
entfernte
90,639 corpus weight
- erlitt
erlitt
90,638 corpus weight
- EZB
EZB
90,637 corpus weight
- Flyer
Flyer
90,636 corpus weight
- freiem
freiem
90,635 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „EZB“ 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 | EZB |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [eːt͡sɛtˈbeː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,364 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „EZB“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for EZB is neighbouring look-alikes ("E", "es", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [eːt͡sɛtˈbeː]. Frequency #9,364 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Gloss: "Europäische Zentralbank".
EZB has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "E", "es", "er", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented 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 EZB, spelled E-Z-B.
Definition
- 1Europäische Zentralbank
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how EZB appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die EZB hat ihren Sitz in Frankfurt am Main.
„Mittlerweile kaufen unter anderem die EZB oder die Bundesbank Yuan als Reservewährung.“
This word in other languages
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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