HGB
[haːɡeːˈbeː]
The verdict
“HGB” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,375) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,375
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
Corpus desk
Index DE-hgb · HGB · German
HGB · rank #22,375 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,375
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Hertz
Nearest frequency peer: Hertz (-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 „HGB“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Havanna
Havanna
77,629 corpus weight
- Hertz
Hertz
77,627 corpus weight
- HGB
HGB
77,626 corpus weight
- Hightech
Hightech
77,625 corpus weight
- hingezogen
hingezogen
77,624 corpus weight
- hinstellen
hinstellen
77,623 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „HGB“ 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 | HGB |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [haːɡeːˈbeː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #22,375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „HGB“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for HGB is neighbouring look-alikes ("hi", "hm", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [haːɡeːˈbeː]. Frequency #22,375 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig".
HGB doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hi", "hm", "hl", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is HGB, spelled H-G-B.
Definition
- 1Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how HGB appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Locher löst damit Ana Dimke ab, die seit 2011 Rektorin der HGB war und das Amt zum 1. April 2016 aus persönlichen Gründen niedergelegt hatte.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).