ICO
"ico" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ICO” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,564) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,564
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of initial coin offering.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ico · ICO · English
ICO · rank #23,564 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,564
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH horseshoe
Nearest frequency peer: horseshoe (-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 “ICO”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Heidelberg
Heidelberg
76,441 corpus weight
- horseshoe
horseshoe
76,438 corpus weight
- ICO
ICO
76,437 corpus weight
- Imran
Imran
76,436 corpus weight
- incision
incision
76,435 corpus weight
- indistingui…
indistinguishable
76,434 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “ICO” 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 | ICO |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,564 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “ICO”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ICO is neighbouring look-alikes ("in", "is", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #23,564 among 2,140 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Initialism of initial coin offering.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ICO, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "in", "is", "it", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is ICO, spelled I-C-O.
Definition
- 1Initialism of initial coin offering.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ICO appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We have finished the coin website and are ready to launch the ICO offering. We are currently in the Phase 1 portion of the offering which is by far the best. We need your help in building a great community and we want to say Thank you with our ICO Phase one offering.
The hype around blockchain technology is turning ICOs into the next digital gold rush: According to the research firm Smith and Crown, ICOs raised $27.6 million in the first two weeks of May alone.
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.
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