ICD
[iːtseːˈdeː]
The verdict
“ICD” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,988) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,988
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - von der WHO herausgegebene „Internationale statistische Klassifikation der Krankheiten und verwandter Gesundheitsprobleme“
Corpus desk
Index DE-icd · ICD · German
ICD · rank #36,988 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,988
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH Hölderlin
Nearest frequency peer: Hölderlin (-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 „ICD“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Hänger
Hänger
63,016 corpus weight
- Häufchen
Häufchen
63,015 corpus weight
- Hölderlin
Hölderlin
63,014 corpus weight
- ICD
ICD
63,013 corpus weight
- initial
initial
63,011 corpus weight
- Innenstädte
Innenstädte
63,010 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „ICD“ 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 | ICD |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [iːtseːˈdeː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #36,988 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „ICD“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ICD is neighbouring look-alikes ("im", "is", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [iːtseːˈdeː]. Frequency #36,988 among 1,488 “I” headwords. Gloss: "von der WHO herausgegebene „Internationale statistische Klassifikation der Krankheiten und verwandter Gesundheitsprobleme“".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ICD in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is ICD, spelled I-C-D.
Definition
- 1von der WHO herausgegebene „Internationale statistische Klassifikation der Krankheiten und verwandter Gesundheitsprobleme“
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ICD appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ein Vorzug von DSM ist die Standardisierung der einzelnen Merkmale, ein Vorteil von ICD ist die internationale Ausrichtung.“
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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