FSJ
[ɛfʔɛsˈjɔt]
The verdict
“FSJ” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,537) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,537
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr / freiwilliges soziales Jahr
Corpus desk
Index DE-fsj · FSJ · German
FSJ · rank #32,537 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,537
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Frühsommer
Nearest frequency peer: Frühsommer (-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 „FSJ“
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What this shows Balken platzieren „FSJ“ 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 | FSJ |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛfʔɛsˈjɔt] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #32,537 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „FSJ“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for FSJ is neighbouring look-alikes ("FW", "FV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ɛfʔɛsˈjɔt]. Frequency #32,537 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr / freiwilliges soziales Jahr".
FSJ doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, 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, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is FSJ, spelled F-S-J.
Definition
- 1Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr / freiwilliges soziales Jahr
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how FSJ appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Das FSJ kann der erste berufliche Schritt in den sozialen und karitativen Arbeitsmarkt sein.“
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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