SWR
The verdict
“SWR” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,949) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,949
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Südwestrundfunk
Corpus desk
Index DE-swr · SWR · German
SWR · rank #10,949 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,949
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH stärkeren
Nearest frequency peer: stärkeren (-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 „SWR“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- steigert
steigert
89,055 corpus weight
- Stillstand
Stillstand
89,054 corpus weight
- stärkeren
stärkeren
89,053 corpus weight
- SWR
SWR
89,052 corpus weight
- sächsische
sächsische
89,051 corpus weight
- Tabak
Tabak
89,050 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „SWR“ 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 | SWR |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „SWR“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for SWR is neighbouring look-alikes ("SZ", "sy", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #10,949 among 8,027 “S” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
SWR has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SZ", "sy", "syn", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is SWR, spelled S-W-R.
Definition
- 1Südwestrundfunk
- 2Schwarz-Weiß-Rot (Flagge des Deutschen Kaiserreichs)
- 3Schweizerischer Waffenring
- 4Schweizerischer Wissenschaftsrat
- 5Siedewasserreaktor
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how SWR appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der SWR hat die Nachfolge von Fritz Frey geklärt, der im Herbst in den Ruhestand eintritt.“
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 "SWR", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).