Sm
The verdict
“Sm” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,939) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,939
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Samarium
Corpus desk
Index DE-sm · Sm · German
Sm · rank #10,939 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,939
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH silver
Nearest frequency peer: silver (-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 “Sm”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- second
second
89,065 corpus weight
- Seil
Seil
89,064 corpus weight
- silver
silver
89,063 corpus weight
- Sm
Sm
89,062 corpus weight
- Sonja
Sonja
89,061 corpus weight
- Sozialisten
Sozialisten
89,060 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Sm” 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 | Sm |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #10,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Sm” sits in German frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Sm is neighbouring look-alikes ("so", "SV", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #10,939 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Samarium".
Sm doesn't appear in our generated misspelling 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Sm, spelled S-M.
Definition
- 1Samarium
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Sm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sm → Sm³⁺ + 3 e⁻
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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- "Sm" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "so". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #10,939 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.