# Inca vs issa

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Inca
*noun · IPA /ˈɪŋkə/ · frequency rank #28,593*
A member of the group of Quechuan peoples of highland Peru who established an empire from northern Ecuador to central Chile before the Spanish conquest.

### issa
*contraction · IPA /ˈɪsə/ · frequency rank #21,249*
Contraction of it's + a.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/inca-vs-issa