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IDA

noun

IDA is a noun meaning “Initialism of iron deficiency anemia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-D-A and has 2 syllables, and it appears 2.9 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of IDA is IDAs.

What does IDA mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Initialism of iron deficiency anemia.

  2. 2

    An industrial development agency.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce IDA?

    IDA has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Forms of IDA

    • IDAs plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    How common is IDA?

    IDA appears 2.9 times per million words in written English, the 15,798th most frequent word form in the list.

    Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).