IATA
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The verdict
“IATA” is uncommon German (frequency #80,510 among 17,725 “I” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,510
- frequency rank, German
- 17,725
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - International Air Transport Association
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | IATA |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #80,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “IATA” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
IATA is uncommon German at frequency #80,510 among 17,725 “I” headwords, classed as anabbreviation, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "International Air Transport Association".
No misspelling variants are generated for IATA in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is IATA, spelled I-A-T-A.
Definition
- 1International Air Transport Association
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 “IATA”
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- The one correct German spelling is I-A-T-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.