FSME
The verdict
“FSME” is uncommon German (frequency #69,236 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,236
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Frühsommer-Meningoenzephalitis
Corpus desk
Index DE-fsme · FSME · German
FSME · rank #69,236 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,236
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH frivole
Nearest frequency peer: frivole (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „FSME“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Fritteuse
Fritteuse
30,767 corpus weight
- frivole
frivole
30,766 corpus weight
- FSME
FSME
30,765 corpus weight
- fundamental…
fundamentalistischen
30,764 corpus weight
- fundierter
fundierter
30,763 corpus weight
- Funktionsst…
Funktionsstörungen
30,762 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „FSME“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | FSME |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „FSME“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
FSME is uncommon German at frequency #69,236 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anabbreviation. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Frühsommer-Meningoenzephalitis".
FSME has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is FSME, spelled F-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Frühsommer-Meningoenzephalitis
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how FSME appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Zu den beiden am häufigsten durch Zecken übertragenen Krankheiten zählt neben der Lyme-Borreliose die Frühsommer-Meningoenzephalitis (FSME).“
„FSME (Frühsommer-Meningoenzephalitis) ist eine zum Teil schwer verlaufende Virusinfektion des Gehirns und des Rückenmarks, die durch Zecken übertragen wird.“
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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