acevsAcehWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: ace is a noun, Aceh is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“ace” is a noun and “Aceh” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#5,930
“ace” frequency rank
#45,770
“Aceh” frequency rank
51700
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature ace Aceh
Definition A playing card showing a single pip, typically the highest or lowest ranking card in a game. A special autonomous province of Indonesia, located on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra.

Letter map: ace vs Aceh

Shared letters muted; letters that set ace and Aceh apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

3 ch
ace
4 ch
Aceh

Role in the sentence - ace and Aceh

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: ace is anoun and Acehaname. On the page they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “ace” sits inside “Aceh”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51700, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ace is recorded at frequency rank #5,930, classified as anoun, pronounced /eɪs/. Aceh is at rank #45,770, tagged as aname.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 51700, this pair ranks #163,271 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of ace vs Aceh

Shared letters: ace. Private to "ace": -. Private to "Aceh": h.

"ace" · 3 letters · shape VCV  ·  "Aceh" · 4 letters · shape VCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Acehacceh · acehh · caeh

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "ace" for "Aceh" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "ace" is a noun and "Aceh" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "ace" or "Aceh"?
"ace" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,930 in our English list, against #45,770 for "Aceh". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "ace" and "Aceh". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "ace" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Aceh" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #163,271 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "ace" and "Aceh" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Aceh vs ake". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #163,271 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list