IGS
[iːɡeːˈʔɛs]
The verdict
“IGS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,243) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,243
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Integrierte Gesamtschule
Corpus desk
Index DE-igs · IGS · German
IGS · rank #48,243 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,243
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH Idealisten
Nearest frequency peer: Idealisten (-2 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 „IGS“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Häuten
Häuten
51,763 corpus weight
- höh
höh
51,762 corpus weight
- ICQ
ICQ
51,761 corpus weight
- Idealisten
Idealisten
51,760 corpus weight
- IGS
IGS
51,758 corpus weight
- Industriean…
Industrieanlagen
51,755 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „IGS“ 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 | IGS |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [iːɡeːˈʔɛs] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #48,243 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „IGS“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for IGS is neighbouring look-alikes ("im", "is", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [iːɡeːˈʔɛs]. Frequency #48,243 among 1,488 “I” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for IGS, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "im", "is", "ii", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is IGS, spelled I-G-S.
Definition
- 1Integrierte Gesamtschule
- 2Internationale Gartenschau
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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