FIA
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The verdict
“FIA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,405) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,405
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile – Weltverband zur Förderung des Automobilsports mit Sitz in Paris
Corpus desk
Index DE-fia · FIA · German
FIA · rank #26,405 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,405
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH feststellte
Nearest frequency peer: feststellte (-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 „FIA“
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What this shows Balken platzieren „FIA“ 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 | FIA |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,405 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „FIA“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for FIA is neighbouring look-alikes ("fl", "FW", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #26,405 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile – Weltverband zur Förderung des Automobilsports mit Sitz in Paris".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for FIA, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fl", "FW", "fm", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is FIA, spelled F-I-A.
Definition
- 1Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile – Weltverband zur Förderung des Automobilsports mit Sitz in Paris
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how FIA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Das Gremium wird seine Arbeit noch diese Woche aufnehmen, gab die FIA am Montag bekannt.“
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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