ICJ

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"icj" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“ICJ” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #49,411) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#49,411
frequency rank, English
17,902
“I” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Initialism of International Court of Justice.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

ICJ vs in
0% similar
ICJ vs is
0% similar
ICJ vs it
0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for ICJ
PropertyValue
HeadwordICJ
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechProper noun
Letters3
Frequency rank#49,411
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “ICJ” sits in English frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). ICJ lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for ICJ is neighbouring look-alikes ("in", "is", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #49,411 among 17,902 “I” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

No misspelling variants are generated for ICJ in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "in", "is", "it", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is ICJ, spelled I-C-J.

Definition

  1. 1
    Initialism of International Court of Justice.
  2. 2
    Initialism of International Commission of Jurists.

This word in other languages

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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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ICJ"?
"ICJ" is spelled I-C-J.
What does "ICJ" mean?
As a proper noun, "ICJ" means: Initialism of International Court of Justice.
What words are commonly confused with "ICJ"?
"ICJ" is commonly confused with "in", "is", "it". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "ICJ" come from?
"ICJ" is a English word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “ICJ”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is I-C-J - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Don't mix it up with “in” - see the side-by-side comparison. ICJ vs in
  • Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words

Words at a similar English frequency

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list