SGB
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The verdict
“SGB” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,939) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,939
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sozialgesetzbuch
Corpus desk
Index DE-sgb · SGB · German
SGB · rank #13,939 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,939
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH siegt
Nearest frequency peer: siegt (+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 „SGB“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Schneide
Schneide
86,065 corpus weight
- schwarzem
schwarzem
86,064 corpus weight
- SGB
SGB
86,062 corpus weight
- siegt
siegt
86,061 corpus weight
- Sigmar
Sigmar
86,060 corpus weight
- Spaniens
Spaniens
86,059 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „SGB“ 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 | SGB |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #13,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „SGB“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for SGB is neighbouring look-alikes ("so", "SV", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #13,939 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Sozialgesetzbuch".
Zero misspellings are on record for SGB in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "so", "SV", "SS", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is SGB, spelled S-G-B.
Definition
- 1Sozialgesetzbuch
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).