CIA
[siːaɪ̯ˈɛɪ̯]
The verdict
“CIA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,306) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,306
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - US-amerikanischer Auslandsnachrichtendienst
Corpus desk
Index DE-cia · CIA · German
CIA · rank #7,306 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,306
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Charlie
Nearest frequency peer: Charlie (-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 „CIA“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Bundesländer
Bundesländer
92,699 corpus weight
- call
call
92,697 corpus weight
- Charlie
Charlie
92,696 corpus weight
- CIA
CIA
92,695 corpus weight
- Düsseldorfer
Düsseldorfer
92,693 corpus weight
- eingezogen
eingezogen
92,692 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „CIA“ 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 | CIA |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [siːaɪ̯ˈɛɪ̯] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „CIA“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CIA is neighbouring look-alikes ("cm", "cl", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [siːaɪ̯ˈɛɪ̯]. Frequency #7,306 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Gloss: "US-amerikanischer Auslandsnachrichtendienst".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for CIA, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cm", "cl", "CT", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is CIA, spelled C-I-A.
Definition
- 1US-amerikanischer Auslandsnachrichtendienst
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how CIA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Am Nachmittag des 25. Juni bombardierte die CIA den Exerzierplatz des größten Militärlagers in Guatemala-Stadt.“
„In der Sowjetunion äußerte die regierungsamtliche Prawda den Verdacht, Thomas Gray sei von der CIA entführt worden, weil sie intime Kenntnis von neuen mathematischen Methoden der Verschlüsselung besitze.“
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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