HIV
[ˌhaːʔiːˈfaʊ̯]
The verdict
“HIV” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,490) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,490
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Human Immunodeficiency Virus, zu deutsch Menschliches Immun-Schwäche-Virus
Corpus desk
Index DE-hiv · HIV · German
HIV · rank #10,490 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,490
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Hilfsmittel
Nearest frequency peer: Hilfsmittel (-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 „HIV“
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89,512 corpus weight
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89,511 corpus weight
- hochgeladen
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89,510 corpus weight
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What this shows Balken platzieren „HIV“ 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 | HIV |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ˌhaːʔiːˈfaʊ̯] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,490 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „HIV“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for HIV is neighbouring look-alikes ("hm", "hl", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [ˌhaːʔiːˈfaʊ̯]. Frequency #10,490 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Human Immunodeficiency Virus, zu deutsch Menschliches Immun-Schwäche-Virus".
No misspelling variants are generated for HIV in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hm", "hl", "Ho", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is HIV, spelled H-I-V.
Definition
- 1Human Immunodeficiency Virus, zu deutsch Menschliches Immun-Schwäche-Virus
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how HIV appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In Deutschland leben rund 43 000 Menschen mit HIV.
„Allerdings ist HIV medial nicht deswegen so ein großes Thema, weil so viele Menschen daran sterben, sondern weil viele Prominente an Aids erkranken.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).