Tb
The verdict
“Tb” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,544) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,544
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Technisches Betriebsbüro
Corpus desk
Index DE-tb · Tb · German
Tb · rank #11,544 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,544
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH süddeutsche
Nearest frequency peer: süddeutsche (-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 „Tb“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Synagoge
Synagoge
88,460 corpus weight
- Synonym
Synonym
88,459 corpus weight
- süddeutsche
süddeutsche
88,458 corpus weight
- Tb
Tb
88,457 corpus weight
- teilnehmend…
teilnehmenden
88,456 corpus weight
- Textes
Textes
88,455 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Tb“ 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 | Tb |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #11,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Tb“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Tb is neighbouring look-alikes ("TO", "TV", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #11,544 among 2,684 “T” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Tb in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TO", "TV", "tu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Tb, spelled T-B.
Definition
- 1Technisches Betriebsbüro
- 2Terabit
- 3Tuberkulose
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tb appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Solange ihre Ursache nicht verstanden wurde und ärztliche Maßnahmen derart wirkungslos blieben, galt Tb als heimtückischer, unerbitterlicher Diebstahl des Lebens. Heute ist der Krebs an der Reihe, die Krankheit zu sein, die nicht anklopft, bevor sie eintritt, ist es der Krebs, der die Rolle einer als erbarmungslose, geheime Invasion erfahrenen Krankheit…
„Lange vor Thomas Mann nahm Klabund die TB zum Anlass, um unter dem Titel »Die Krankheit« über die Tuberkulose eine Erzählung zu schreiben.“
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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.