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SPS

German, noun[…]

SPS is spelled S-P-S (3 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 42,412th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). SPS is a German feminine noun meaning “initialism of speicherprogrammierbare Steuerung: PLC” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does SPS mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineinitialism of speicherprogrammierbare Steuerung: PLC

  2. 2

    feminineinitialism of schizoide Persönlichkeitsstörung

  3. 3

    feminineinitialism of Skin-Picking-Störung

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

abbreviation: 1. schizoide Persönlichkeitsstörung 2. Schubpferdestärke 3. sekundäre Pflanzenstoffe 4. Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

How do you pronounce SPS?

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Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to SPS

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is SPS in German?

SPS appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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