ide
/aɪd/
"ide" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ide” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,195) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,195
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, found across northern Europe and Asia, especially Leuciscus idus.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ide · ide · English
ide · rank #24,195 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,195
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH idealistic
Nearest frequency peer: idealistic (+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 “ide”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- hurling
hurling
75,809 corpus weight
- hurried
hurried
75,808 corpus weight
- ide
ide
75,806 corpus weight
- idealistic
idealistic
75,805 corpus weight
- impede
impede
75,804 corpus weight
- imperialist
imperialist
75,803 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “ide” 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 | ide |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /aɪd/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,195 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “ide”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ide is neighbouring look-alikes ("in", "is", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /aɪd/. Frequency #24,195 among 2,140 “I” headwords. Gloss: "A freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, found across northern Europe and Asia, especially Leuciscus idus.".
ide has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French ide, from Scientific Latin idus (species name), from Swedish id. The correct English form is ide, spelled I-D-E.
Definition
- 1A freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, found across northern Europe and Asia, especially Leuciscus idus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a pike says to the pike-folk / a whitefish asked an ide, a / salmon another salmon: / ‘Have they died, the famous men / have Kaleva's sons been lost […]?’
Etymology
Borrowed from French ide, from Scientific Latin idus (species name), from Swedish id.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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