ira
[ˈiːra]
The verdict
“ira” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,290) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,290
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Zorn, die Wut
Corpus desk
Index DE-ira · ira · German
ira · rank #18,290 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,290
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH Innenseite
Nearest frequency peer: Innenseite (-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 „ira“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Hörner
Hörner
81,714 corpus weight
- ideologisch
ideologisch
81,713 corpus weight
- Innenseite
Innenseite
81,712 corpus weight
- ira
ira
81,711 corpus weight
- Iren
Iren
81,710 corpus weight
- Irische
Irische
81,709 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „ira“ 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 | ira |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈiːra] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „ira“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ira is neighbouring look-alikes ("is", "IT", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈiːra]. Frequency #18,290 among 1,488 “I” headwords. Gloss: "der Zorn, die Wut".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ira in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "is", "IT", "ix", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is ira, spelled I-R-A.
Definition
- 1der Zorn, die Wut
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).