WBS

abbrev

The verdict

“WBS” is an uncommon German word, ranked #73,096 in German word frequency and used as an abbreviation.

#73,096
frequency rank, German
3
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Wohnberechtigungsschein

Key facts for WBS
PropertyValue
HeadwordWBS
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAbbreviation
Letters3
Frequency rank#73,096
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “WBS” sits in German frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). WBS lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for WBS is 3 letters long, classified as an abbreviation. Corpus data places it at rank #73,096 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for WBS in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is WBS, spelled W-B-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Wohnberechtigungsschein
  2. 2
    Williams-Beuren-Syndrom

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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "WBS"?
"WBS" is spelled W-B-S.
What does "WBS" mean?
As an abbreviation, "WBS" means: Wohnberechtigungsschein
What language does "WBS" come from?
"WBS" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “WBS”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is W-B-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list