MLB
The verdict
“MLB” is uncommon German (frequency #75,979 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,979
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Major League Baseball
Corpus desk
Index DE-mlb · MLB · German
MLB · rank #75,979 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,979
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Mittelstadt
Nearest frequency peer: Mittelstadt (-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 „MLB“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- mitbestimmt
mitbestimmt
24,027 corpus weight
- mitgereisten
mitgereisten
24,026 corpus weight
- Mittelstadt
Mittelstadt
24,023 corpus weight
- MLB
MLB
24,022 corpus weight
- Mofas
Mofas
24,019 corpus weight
- Monolith
Monolith
24,016 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „MLB“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | MLB |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #75,979 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „MLB“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
MLB is uncommon German at frequency #75,979 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anabbreviation. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for MLB in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is MLB, spelled M-L-B.
Definition
- 1Major League Baseball
- 2Middle Linebacker
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how MLB appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Alle fünf Jahre verhandelt die MLB mit der Spielergewerkschaft einen neuen Tarifvertrag aus.“
„Für die Abwehr wurden die Defensive Ends Reggie White und Sean Jones, die Defensive Tackles Gilbert Brown und Santana Dotson, MLB Ron Cox und FS Eugene Robinson nach Wisconsin gelockt.“
This word in other languages
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).