MAB
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The verdict
“MAB” is uncommon German (frequency #65,481 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,481
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Man and the Biosphere
Corpus desk
Index DE-mab · MAB · German
MAB · rank #65,481 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,481
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Machtbereich
Nearest frequency peer: Machtbereich (+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 „MAB“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Lähmungen
Lähmungen
34,524 corpus weight
- Löscharbeit…
Löscharbeiten
34,523 corpus weight
- MAB
MAB
34,520 corpus weight
- Machtbereich
Machtbereich
34,519 corpus weight
- maj
maj
34,517 corpus weight
- makellose
makellose
34,516 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „MAB“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | MAB |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #65,481 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „MAB“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
MAB is uncommon German at frequency #65,481 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anabbreviation, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for MAB in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is MAB, spelled M-A-B.
Definition
- 1Man and the Biosphere
- 2Marienberg
- 3Maschinelles Austauschformat für Bibliotheken
- 4Mitarbeiterbeurteilung
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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