SZ
[ɛsˈt͡sɛt]
The verdict
“SZ” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,363) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,363
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sommerzeit
Corpus desk
Index DE-sz · SZ · German
SZ · rank #6,363 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,363
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH stürzen
Nearest frequency peer: stürzen (-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 „SZ“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Stuttgarter
Stuttgarter
93,640 corpus weight
- stürzen
stürzen
93,639 corpus weight
- SZ
SZ
93,638 corpus weight
- Tasse
Tasse
93,637 corpus weight
- Tobias
Tobias
93,636 corpus weight
- Topf
Topf
93,635 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „SZ“ 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 | SZ |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ɛsˈt͡sɛt] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #6,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „SZ“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for SZ is neighbouring look-alikes ("s", "so", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [ɛsˈt͡sɛt]. Frequency #6,363 among 8,027 “S” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
SZ doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "s", "so", "Sc", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is SZ, spelled S-Z.
Definition
- 1Sommerzeit
- 2Süddeutsche Zeitung ^(→ WP)
- 3Sächsische Zeitung ^(→ WP)
- 4Die offizielle Abkürzung von Schwyz lautet SZ.
- 5Unterscheidungskennzeichen des Bezirks Schwaz
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how SZ appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Laut "SZ" kommt die Offerte von Springer und ist bis heute um 18.00 Uhr befristet.
In Rapperswil sieht man jeden Morgen und Abend viele Automobilisten mit dem Kennzeichen SZ.
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.