IOC
The verdict
“IOC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,121) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,121
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abkürzung für International Olympic Committee
Corpus desk
Index DE-ioc · IOC · German
IOC · rank #15,121 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,121
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH irrelevant
Nearest frequency peer: irrelevant (+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 „IOC“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
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herbei
84,884 corpus weight
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him
84,883 corpus weight
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Hipster
84,882 corpus weight
- IOC
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84,880 corpus weight
- irrelevant
irrelevant
84,879 corpus weight
- islamischer
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84,878 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „IOC“ 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 | IOC |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „IOC“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for IOC is neighbouring look-alikes ("is", "IT", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #15,121 among 1,488 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Abkürzung für International Olympic Committee".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for IOC, 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is IOC, spelled I-O-C.
Definition
- 1Abkürzung für International Olympic Committee
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how IOC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„The IOC organises the modern Olympic Games and Youth Olympic Games, held in summer and winter, every four years.“
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).