FSK
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The verdict
“FSK” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,415) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,415
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft (Altersbegrenzung bei Filmen)
Corpus desk
Index DE-fsk · FSK · German
FSK · rank #26,415 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,415
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH fröhlicher
Nearest frequency peer: fröhlicher (-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 „FSK“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Fortbildung…
Fortbildungen
73,589 corpus weight
- Freaks
Freaks
73,588 corpus weight
- fröhlicher
fröhlicher
73,587 corpus weight
- FSK
FSK
73,586 corpus weight
- fundamental
fundamental
73,585 corpus weight
- fundamentale
fundamentale
73,584 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „FSK“ 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 | FSK |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „FSK“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for FSK is neighbouring look-alikes ("FW", "FV", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #26,415 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Gloss: "freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft (Altersbegrenzung bei Filmen)".
FSK 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is FSK, spelled F-S-K.
Definition
- 1freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft (Altersbegrenzung bei Filmen)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how FSK appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Film ist/hat FSK 18.
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).