ICJ vs it, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#49,411
“ICJ” frequency rank: #12
“it” frequency rank: 49423
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	ICJ	it
Definition	Initialism of International Court of Justice.	The third-person singular neuter personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, abstract entity, or non-human living thing.

Letter map: ICJ vs it

Shared letters muted; letters that set ICJ and it apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. ICJ runs 3 letters (VCC) against it's 2 (VC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

3 ch

ICJ

2 ch

Part-of-speech tell for ICJ / it

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: ICJ is aname and itapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49423, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ICJ is recorded at frequency rank #49,411, classified as aname. it is at rank #12, tagged as apron, pronounced /ɪt/.

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 49423, this pair ranks #183,760 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of ICJ vs it

Shared letters: i. Private to "ICJ": cj. Private to "it": t.

"ICJ" · 3 letters · shape VCC · "it" · 2 letters · shape VC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "ICJ" and "it" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "ICJ" is a name and "it" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

In ordinary English text, does "ICJ" or "it" show up more?

"it" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12 in our English list, against #49,411 for "ICJ". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "ICJ" and "it". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "ICJ" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "it" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #183,760 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"ICJ" and "it" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ICJ vs ith". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #183,760 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.