feb
The verdict
“feb” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,333) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,333
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abkürzung für den Monat februari; Februar
Corpus desk
Index DE-feb · feb · German
feb · rank #22,333 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,333
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH exzellente
Nearest frequency peer: exzellente (-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 „feb“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- erwähnenswe…
erwähnenswert
77,671 corpus weight
- Essenz
Essenz
77,670 corpus weight
- exzellente
exzellente
77,669 corpus weight
- feb
feb
77,668 corpus weight
- fiese
fiese
77,667 corpus weight
- Finnen
Finnen
77,666 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „feb“ 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 | feb |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #22,333 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „feb“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for feb is neighbouring look-alikes ("fi", "FH", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #22,333 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Abkürzung für den Monat februari; Februar".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for feb, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fi", "FH", "fl", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is feb, spelled F-E-B.
Definition
- 1Abkürzung für den Monat februari; Februar
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how feb appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
feb, den andra månaden på året
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).