ita
[ítá]
The verdict
“ita” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #30,135 in German word frequency and used as a pronoun.
- #30,135
- frequency rank, German
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personalpronomen 3. Person Femininum Singular; sie
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 | ita |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [ítá] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #30,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ita” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for ita is 3 letters long, classified as a pronoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ítá]. Corpus data places it at rank #30,135 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Personalpronomen 3. Person Femininum Singular; sie".
No misspelling variants are generated for ita in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ix", "its", "IWF", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is ita, spelled I-T-A.
Definition
- 1Personalpronomen 3. Person Femininum Singular; sie
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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Using “ita”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is I-T-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ítá] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “ix” - see the side-by-side comparison. ita vs ix
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.