MdB
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The verdict
“MdB” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,219) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,219
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mitglied des Bundestages
Corpus desk
Index DE-mdb · MdB · German
MdB · rank #16,219 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,219
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH mbH
Nearest frequency peer: mbH (-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 „MdB“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Liveticker
Liveticker
83,786 corpus weight
- materiellen
materiellen
83,784 corpus weight
- mbH
mbH
83,783 corpus weight
- MdB
MdB
83,782 corpus weight
- merklich
merklich
83,781 corpus weight
- militärisch…
militärischer
83,780 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „MdB“ 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 | MdB |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „MdB“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for MdB is neighbouring look-alikes ("mm", "me", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #16,219 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Mitglied des Bundestages".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for MdB, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mm", "me", "my", 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 MdB, spelled M-D-B.
Definition
- 1Mitglied des Bundestages
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how MdB appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ab 1984 war Herbert Rusche MdB.
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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