IMO
[ˌiːɛmˈʔoː]
The verdict
“IMO” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,299) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,299
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Institut für Marktökologie (Sitz in der Schweiz)
Corpus desk
Index DE-imo · IMO · German
IMO · rank #21,299 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,299
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH ige
Nearest frequency peer: ige (-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 „IMO“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Hörbücher
Hörbücher
78,705 corpus weight
- Hügeln
Hügeln
78,704 corpus weight
- ige
ige
78,703 corpus weight
- IMO
IMO
78,702 corpus weight
- Indikatoren
Indikatoren
78,700 corpus weight
- Interpreten
Interpreten
78,699 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „IMO“ 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 | IMO |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ˌiːɛmˈʔoː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „IMO“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for IMO is neighbouring look-alikes ("is", "IT", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [ˌiːɛmˈʔoː]. Frequency #21,299 among 1,488 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Institut für Marktökologie (Sitz in der Schweiz)".
Zero misspellings are on record for IMO in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "is", "IT", "IP", 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, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is IMO, spelled I-M-O.
Definition
- 1Institut für Marktökologie (Sitz in der Schweiz)
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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