SPS
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The verdict
“SPS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #42,839) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #42,839
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - schizoide Persönlichkeitsstörung
Corpus desk
Index DE-sps · SPS · German
SPS · rank #42,839 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,839
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Springbrunnen
Nearest frequency peer: Springbrunnen (-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 „SPS“
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57,163 corpus weight
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57,162 corpus weight
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57,158 corpus weight
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57,157 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „SPS“ 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 | SPS |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #42,839 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „SPS“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for SPS is neighbouring look-alikes ("SV", "SS", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #42,839 among 8,027 “S” headwords. 7 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
SPS has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SV", "SS", "SZ", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 SPS, spelled S-P-S.
Definition
- 1schizoide Persönlichkeitsstörung
- 2Schubpferdestärke
- 3sekundäre Pflanzenstoffe
- 4Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz
- 5speicherprogrammierbare Steuerung, speicherprogrammierbare Steuerungen
- 6Super-Proton-Synchrotron
- 7Symbol-Programm-System
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how SPS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Richard E. Morley (Modicon) und Odo J. Struger (Allen-Bradley) kann man als die Väter der SPS bezeichnen.“
This word in other languages
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "SPS", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).