sab
[sab]
The verdict
“sab” is uncommon German (frequency #56,493 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,493
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mineralisches lockeres Bodenmaterial; Sand
Corpus desk
Index DE-sab · sab · German
sab · rank #56,493 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,493
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Rundungen
Nearest frequency peer: Rundungen (-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 “sab”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Rundumschlag
Rundumschlag
43,510 corpus weight
- Rundungen
Rundungen
43,509 corpus weight
- sab
sab
43,508 corpus weight
- Saisons
Saisons
43,507 corpus weight
- Saline
Saline
43,506 corpus weight
- Sammelstelle
Sammelstelle
43,505 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “sab” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sab |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sab] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #56,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “sab” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
sab is uncommon German at frequency #56,493 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [sab]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mineralisches lockeres Bodenmaterial; Sand".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sab, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 sab, spelled S-A-B.
Definition
- 1mineralisches lockeres Bodenmaterial; Sand
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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