MiB
The verdict
“MiB” is uncommon German (frequency #98,808 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,808
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abkürzung für Mebibyte, 1 MiB = 2²⁰ Byte
Corpus desk
Index DE-mib · MiB · German
MiB · rank #98,808 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,808
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH miauen
Nearest frequency peer: miauen (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “MiB”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- merkwürdigs…
merkwürdigsten
1,196 corpus weight
- miauen
miauen
1,194 corpus weight
- MiB
MiB
1,193 corpus weight
- mier
mier
1,192 corpus weight
- mietfrei
mietfrei
1,191 corpus weight
- Mietvertrag…
Mietvertrages
1,190 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “MiB” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | MiB |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #98,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “MiB” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
MiB is uncommon German at frequency #98,808 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anabbreviation. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abkürzung für Mebibyte, 1 MiB = 2²⁰ Byte".
No generated misspelling entries exist for MiB in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is MiB, spelled M-I-B.
Definition
- 1Abkürzung für Mebibyte, 1 MiB = 2²⁰ Byte
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how MiB appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eine 700-Megabyte-CD umfasst eigentlich 667,57 MiB.
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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