Fed
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The verdict
“Fed” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #14,285 in German word frequency and used as an abbreviation.
- #14,285
- frequency rank, German
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Abkürzung für Federal Reserve System oder auch für Federal Reserve, das US-Amerikanische Zentralbanksystem, das durch den Federal Reserve Act vom 23.12.1913 gegründet und durch den Bank-Act von 193...
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 | Fed |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,285 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Fed” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Fed is 3 letters long, classified as an abbreviation, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,285 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Abkürzung für Federal Reserve System oder auch für Federal Reserve, das US-Amerikanische Zentralbanksystem, das durch den Federal Reserve Act vom 23.12.1913 gegründet und durch den Bank-Act von 193...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Fed in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fi", "FH", "fl", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Fed, spelled F-E-D.
Definition
- 1Abkürzung für Federal Reserve System oder auch für Federal Reserve, das US-Amerikanische Zentralbanksystem, das durch den Federal Reserve Act vom 23.12.1913 gegründet und durch den Bank-Act von 1935 modifiziert wurde.
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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Using “Fed”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is F-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as […] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “fi” - see the side-by-side comparison. Fed vs fi
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.