IAEA
The verdict
“IAEA” is uncommon German (frequency #80,509 among 17,725 “I” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,509
- frequency rank, German
- 17,725
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Abkürzung für International Atomic Energy Agency - Internationale Atomenergie-Organisation
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | IAEA |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #80,509 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “IAEA” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
IAEA is uncommon German at frequency #80,509 among 17,725 “I” headwords, classed as anabbreviation. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abkürzung für International Atomic Energy Agency - Internationale Atomenergie-Organisation".
Zero misspellings are on record for IAEA in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 IAEA, spelled I-A-E-A.
Definition
- 1Abkürzung für International Atomic Energy Agency - Internationale Atomenergie-Organisation
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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Using “IAEA”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is I-A-E-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.