iff
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The verdict
“iff” is uncommon German (frequency #63,433 among 1,488 “I” headwords), classed as a conjunction. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,433
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - genau dann, wenn, dann und nur dann, wenn
Corpus desk
Index DE-iff · iff · German
iff · rank #63,433 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,433
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH hüpfte
Nearest frequency peer: hüpfte (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „iff“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- hämmerte
hämmerte
36,572 corpus weight
- Hängebrücke
Hängebrücke
36,571 corpus weight
- hüpfte
hüpfte
36,569 corpus weight
- iff
iff
36,568 corpus weight
- Industriest…
Industriestadt
36,566 corpus weight
- Information…
Informationsbeschaffung
36,564 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „iff“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | iff |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #63,433 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „iff“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
iff is uncommon German at frequency #63,433 among 1,488 “I” headwords, classed as aconjunction, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "genau dann, wenn, dann und nur dann, wenn".
No misspelling variants are generated for iff in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is iff, spelled I-F-F.
Definition
- 1genau dann, wenn, dann und nur dann, wenn
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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