rbb
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The verdict
“rbb” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,391) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,391
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
Corpus desk
Index DE-rbb · rbb · German
rbb · rank #17,391 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,391
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH rar
Nearest frequency peer: rar (-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 “rbb”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Rabatte
Rabatte
82,613 corpus weight
- rage
rage
82,612 corpus weight
- rar
rar
82,611 corpus weight
- rbb
rbb
82,610 corpus weight
- rechtlicher
rechtlicher
82,609 corpus weight
- rechtskräft…
rechtskräftig
82,608 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “rbb” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | rbb |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “rbb” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for rbb is neighbouring look-alikes ("re", "Rn", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #17,391 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rbb, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "re", "Rn", "Rs", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is rbb, spelled R-B-B.
Definition
- 1Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rbb appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Es dränge sich der Eindruck auf, dass gegen Chodorkowski ein Exempel statuiert werde, sagte die Berichterstatterin des Europarates im Inforadio des Senders rbb.“
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).
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- "rbb" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "re". View pair
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.