PSV
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The verdict
“PSV” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,739) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,739
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pensionssicherungsverein
Corpus desk
Index DE-psv · PSV · German
PSV · rank #31,739 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,739
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Präsidentenwa…
Nearest frequency peer: Präsidentenwahl (-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 „PSV“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Preview
Preview
68,265 corpus weight
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privatem
68,264 corpus weight
- Präsidenten…
Präsidentenwahl
68,263 corpus weight
- PSV
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68,262 corpus weight
- Putze
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68,261 corpus weight
- pädophilen
pädophilen
68,260 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „PSV“ 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 | PSV |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #31,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „PSV“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for PSV is neighbouring look-alikes ("PV", "Pt", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #31,739 among 3,409 “P” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
PSV has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PV", "Pt", "Pu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented 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 PSV, spelled P-S-V.
Definition
- 1Pensionssicherungsverein
- 2Pferdesportverein
- 3Polizei- und Schäferhundeverein
- 4Polizeisportverein
- 5Postsportverein
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).