FSB
[ɛfʔɛsˈbeː]
The verdict
“FSB” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,175) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,175
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - russischer Inlandsgeheimdienst und Geheimpolizei
Corpus desk
Index DE-fsb · FSB · German
FSB · rank #41,175 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,175
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH frings
Nearest frequency peer: frings (-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 „FSB“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- fortschritt…
fortschrittlich
58,829 corpus weight
- freischalten
freischalten
58,828 corpus weight
- frings
frings
58,827 corpus weight
- FSB
FSB
58,826 corpus weight
- funktionell
funktionell
58,825 corpus weight
- Fusionen
Fusionen
58,824 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „FSB“ 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 | FSB |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛfʔɛsˈbeː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #41,175 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „FSB“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for FSB is neighbouring look-alikes ("FW", "FV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ɛfʔɛsˈbeː]. Frequency #41,175 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Gloss: "russischer Inlandsgeheimdienst und Geheimpolizei".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for FSB, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FW", "FV", "für", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is FSB, spelled F-S-B.
Definition
- 1russischer Inlandsgeheimdienst und Geheimpolizei
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how FSB appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Er betrachtete die Bombe als eine Art Lebensversicherung für den Fall, dass der FSB oder eine ausländische Strafverfolgungsbehörde ihn hinter Gitter brachte, so wie es seinem Vater passiert war.“
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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