GB

noun, phrase

GB is spelled G-B: 2 letters. It appears 8.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,146th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, GB means “Initialism of gigabyte” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of GB is GBs.

How many letters and syllables are in GB?

Letters	2: G-B
In writing	8.1 times per million words; the 8,146th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is GB?

GB appears 8.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,146th most frequent word form in the list.

GB0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of GB

GBs plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does GB mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

1
Initialism of gigabyte.
2
informalAbbreviation of gibibyte.
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3
Initialism of gallbladder.
4
informalInitialism of goofball (“a barbiturate”).
5
Initialism of grain boundary.
6
Initialism of green bean galaxy.

symbol

as Gb

1
Abbreviation of Gbit.
2
Abbreviation of gigabase.

phrase

1
Initialism of God bless.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

GB in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense gigabyte:

Language	Words
French	Go

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.