SQL
[ɛskuːˈʔɛl]
The verdict
“SQL” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,799) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,799
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Datenbanksprache
Corpus desk
Index DE-sql · SQL · German
SQL · rank #29,799 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,799
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sportwetten
Nearest frequency peer: Sportwetten (-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 „SQL“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Spengler
Spengler
70,205 corpus weight
- Spielklasse
Spielklasse
70,204 corpus weight
- Sportwetten
Sportwetten
70,203 corpus weight
- SQL
SQL
70,202 corpus weight
- Staatsgebiet
Staatsgebiet
70,201 corpus weight
- Steele
Steele
70,200 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „SQL“ 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 | SQL |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ɛskuːˈʔɛl] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #29,799 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „SQL“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for SQL is neighbouring look-alikes ("SV", "SS", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [ɛskuːˈʔɛl]. Frequency #29,799 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Gloss: "eine Datenbanksprache".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for SQL, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
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 SQL, spelled S-Q-L.
Definition
- 1eine Datenbanksprache
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how SQL appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„SQL ist eine Datenbanksprache zur Definition von Datenstrukturen in relationalen Datenbanken sowie zum Bearbeiten (Einfügen, Verändern, Löschen) und Abfragen von darauf basierenden Datenbeständen.“
„Das ursprüngliche SQL war keine Turing-vollständige Programmiersprache, es ermöglichte also nicht die Realisierung von beliebigen Computerprogrammen.“
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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