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sb

pronoun, adjective

sb is spelled S-B: 2 letters. It appears 5.0 times per million words in written English, the 11,198th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a pronoun, sb means “Abbreviation of somebody” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in sb?

Letters2: S-B
In writing5.0 times per million words; the 11,198th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 sb?

Sb appears 5.0 times per million words in written English, the 11,198th most frequent word form in the list.

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

Forms of sb

  • sb.

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

What does sb mean?

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

pronoun

  1. 1

    Abbreviation of somebody.

noun

as SB
  1. 1

    Initialism of stretcher bearer.

  2. 2

    Initialism of season best (this season's personal best).

  3. 3

    Abbreviation of stolen base; The statistic reporting the number of stolen bases.

  4. 4

    Abbreviation of sideband.

  5. 5

    Abbreviation of sexbot.

  6. 6

    Initialism of senate bill (“a bill proposed in or passed by a senate”) (Compare HB.)

    SB5

  7. 7

    Initialism of state bill.

  8. 8

    Initialism of Sauvignon blanc.

adjective

as SB
  1. 1

    Initialism of southbound.

adverb

as SB
  1. 1

    Initialism of southbound.

verb

as SB
  1. 1

    Initialism of soft-block.

adjective

  1. 1

    Initialism of so bad.

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

Sb in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense abbreviation of somebody in explanation:

LanguageWords
Frenchqqn
Germanjmd.

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.

Where does sb come from?

Initialisms.

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

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