ee
"ee" is a 2-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ee” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,762) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,762
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An eye.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ee · ee · English
ee · rank #12,762 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,762
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH doubling
Nearest frequency peer: doubling (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “ee”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- dog's
dog's
87,242 corpus weight
- Dominic
Dominic
87,241 corpus weight
- doubling
doubling
87,240 corpus weight
- ee
ee
87,239 corpus weight
- enclosure
enclosure
87,237 corpus weight
- evangelical
evangelical
87,236 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “ee” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ee |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #12,762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “ee”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ee is neighbouring look-alikes ("ex", "et", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #12,762 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Gloss: "An eye.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ee in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ex", "et", "EU", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is ee, spelled E-E.
Definition
- 1An eye.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ee appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Each turn'd his face with a ghastly pang / And curs'd me with his ee.
[…] and he never took his ee aff them, or said another word […]
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.