ICJvsinclConfusable pair

Quick tell: ICJ is a name, incl is a preposition, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“ICJ” is a name and “incl” is a preposition - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#49,411
“ICJ” frequency rank
#21,828
“incl” frequency rank
71239
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature ICJ incl
Definition Initialism of International Court of Justice. Abbreviation of including.

Letter map: ICJ vs incl

Shared letters muted; letters that set ICJ and incl apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. ICJ runs 3 letters (VCC) against incl's 4 (VCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

3 ch
ICJ
4 ch
incl

Role in the sentence - ICJ and incl

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: ICJ is aname and inclapreposition. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 71239, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ICJ is recorded at frequency rank #49,411, classified as aname. incl is at rank #21,828, tagged as aprep.

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 71239, this pair ranks #47,489 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of ICJ vs incl

Shared letters: ci. Private to "ICJ": j. Private to "incl": ln.

"ICJ" · 3 letters · shape VCC  ·  "incl" · 4 letters · shape VCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • incl ← icnl · inccl · incll · inlc · inncl · nicl

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "ICJ" for "incl" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "ICJ" is a name and "incl" a preposition, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary English text, does "ICJ" or "incl" show up more?
"incl" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,828 in our English list, against #49,411 for "ICJ". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "ICJ" and "incl".

  • Full dictionary entry for "ICJ" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "incl" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #47,489 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "ICJ" and "incl" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ICJ vs ith". 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 #47,489 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