IHK
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The verdict
“IHK” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,384) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,384
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Industrie- und Handelskammer
Corpus desk
Index DE-ihk · IHK · German
IHK · rank #9,384 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,384
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH Hirsch
Nearest frequency peer: Hirsch (-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 „IHK“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- herausgefun…
herausgefunden
90,619 corpus weight
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Hirsch
90,618 corpus weight
- IHK
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90,617 corpus weight
- Inhalten
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90,616 corpus weight
- Inspiration
Inspiration
90,615 corpus weight
- irgendeinen
irgendeinen
90,614 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „IHK“ 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 | IHK |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,384 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „IHK“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for IHK is neighbouring look-alikes ("im", "is", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #9,384 among 1,488 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Industrie- und Handelskammer".
No generated misspelling entries exist for IHK in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "im", "is", "ii", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is IHK, spelled I-H-K.
Definition
- 1Industrie- und Handelskammer
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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