SFB

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The verdict

“SFB” is uncommon German (frequency #67,700 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#67,700
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sender Freies Berlin

Corpus desk

Index DE-sfb · SFB · German

SFB · rank #67,700 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #67,700
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-0 0 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH Sheriffs

Nearest frequency peer: Sheriffs (+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 „SFB“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for SFB
PropertyValue
HeadwordSFB
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAbbreviation
IPA[…]
Letters3
Frequency rank#67,700
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „SFB“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).SFBfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

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

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Sheriffs“ (#67,701), „selbsttätig“ (#67,697), „selbstbestimmten“ (#67,696). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „SFB“ bei #67,700. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

SFB is uncommon German at frequency #67,700 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anabbreviation, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for SFB, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is SFB, spelled S-F-B.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sender Freies Berlin
  2. 2
    Sonderforschungsbereich

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how SFB appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Am 9.11.1989 um 19.30 Uhr begann der SFB seine Berichterstattung über die Öffnung der Berliner Mauer aktuell für ganz Deutschland.“
  2. „Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) richtet […] 17 neue Sonderforschungsbereiche (SFB) ein.“

Antonyms

BRDWhrMDRNDRNWDRORBRBrbbSDRSRSWFSWRWDR

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 "SFB"?
"SFB" is spelled S-F-B. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "SFB" mean?
As an abbreviation, "SFB" means: Sender Freies Berlin
How do you pronounce "SFB"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "SFB" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "SFB" come from?
"SFB" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

SRS#67,727tok#67,789tuk#67,799nim#67,558

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list