ich
/ɪk/noun
ich is spelled I-C-H: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,798th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, ich means “Ichthyophthiriasis, a parasitic infection of freshwater fish caused by ciliates of genus Ichthyophthirius” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in ich?
| Letters | 3: I-C-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.7 times per million words; the 21,798th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is ich?
Ich appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,798th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce ich?
- /ɪk/
As a pronoun (“I”): /iːt͡ʃ/, /ɪt͡ʃ/.
Ich has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-ich.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with ich
Sounds like: each (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: ick.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with ich?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as ich.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: chi, hic.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of ich
- che
- ch
- 'ch-
- ch-
- ick
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does ich mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Ichthyophthiriasis, a parasitic infection of freshwater fish caused by ciliates of genus Ichthyophthirius.
noun
- 1
Initialism of intracranial hemorrhage.
- 2
Initialism of intracerebral hemorrhage.
- 3
Initialism of intracranial hematoma.
- 4
Initialism of intangible cultural heritage.
pronoun
- 1
obsoleteI.
Ich haven't seen such foolishness before.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does ich come from?
Clipping of ichthyophthiriasis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).