sabres

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The verdict

“sabres” is uncommon German (frequency #96,178 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#96,178
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs sabre

Corpus desk

Index DE-sabres · sabres · German

sabres · rank #96,178 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #96,178
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH Rums

Nearest frequency peer: Rums (-3 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 „sabres“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „sabres“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for sabres
PropertyValue
Headwordsabres
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters6
Frequency rank#96,178
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „sabres“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.sabresfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Rums“ (#96,175), „rumpeln“ (#96,174), „Salden“ (#96,182). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „sabres“ bei #96,178. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sabres is uncommon German at frequency #96,178 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs sabre".

sabres has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

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 sabres, spelled S-A-B-R-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plural des Substantivs sabre

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sabres"?
"sabres" is spelled S-A-B-R-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "sabres" mean?
As a noun, "sabres" means: Plural des Substantivs sabre
How do you pronounce "sabres"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sabres" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sabres" come from?
"sabres" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sabres", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list