GSM
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The verdict
“GSM” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,375) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,375
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Groupe Spécial Mobile
Corpus desk
Index DE-gsm · GSM · German
GSM · rank #36,375 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,375
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Grundstock
Nearest frequency peer: Grundstock (-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 „GSM“
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63,627 corpus weight
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What this shows Balken platzieren „GSM“ 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 | GSM |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #36,375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „GSM“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for GSM is neighbouring look-alikes ("GV", "gz", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #36,375 among 5,117 “G” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for GSM, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GV", "gz", "gut", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is GSM, spelled G-S-M.
Definition
- 1Groupe Spécial Mobile
- 2Gender or Sexual Minority
- 3Global System for Mobile communications
Antonyms
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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