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IAD

noun

IAD is a noun meaning “internal affairs department” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-A-D, and it appears about once in every 5 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of IAD is IADs.

What does IAD mean?

noun

  1. 1

    internal affairs department

  2. 2

    intelligent assist device

  3. 3

    Initialism of Internet addiction disorder.

  4. 4

    Initialism of incontinence-associated dermatitis.

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

Forms of IAD

  • IADs plural

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

How common is IAD?

IAD appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 64,400th 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).