ina
The verdict
“ina” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,737) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,737
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ISO-639-2-Code und ISO-639-3-Code für die Sprache Interlingua
Corpus desk
Index DE-ina · ina · German
ina · rank #16,737 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,737
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH Imbiss
Nearest frequency peer: Imbiss (-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 „ina“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Höfe
Höfe
83,267 corpus weight
- Hörspiel
Hörspiel
83,266 corpus weight
- Imbiss
Imbiss
83,265 corpus weight
- ina
ina
83,264 corpus weight
- industrial
industrial
83,263 corpus weight
- Industriali…
Industrialisierung
83,262 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „ina“ 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 | ina |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,737 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „ina“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ina is neighbouring look-alikes ("is", "IT", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #16,737 among 1,488 “I” headwords. Gloss: "ISO-639-2-Code und ISO-639-3-Code für die Sprache Interlingua".
Zero misspellings are on record for ina in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "is", "IT", "IP", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is ina, spelled I-N-A.
Definition
- 1ISO-639-2-Code und ISO-639-3-Code für die Sprache Interlingua
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ina appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das Kürzel ina ist gemäß internationaler ISO Norm 639-2 das Zeichen für die Plansprache Interlingua.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).