IAA
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The verdict
“IAA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,184) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #34,184
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung
Corpus desk
Index DE-iaa · IAA · German
IAA · rank #34,184 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,184
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH Husum
Nearest frequency peer: Husum (-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 „IAA“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- hungrigen
hungrigen
65,820 corpus weight
- Hupe
Hupe
65,819 corpus weight
- Husum
Husum
65,818 corpus weight
- IAA
IAA
65,817 corpus weight
- Ilm
Ilm
65,816 corpus weight
- Imitation
Imitation
65,815 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „IAA“ 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 | IAA |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #34,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „IAA“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for IAA is neighbouring look-alikes ("im", "is", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #34,184 among 1,488 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung".
IAA doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "im", "is", "ii", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is IAA, spelled I-A-A.
Definition
- 1Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how IAA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Auf der IAA kann man sich die neusten Autos anschauen.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "IAA", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).