igg
"igg" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“igg” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,684) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,684
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To ignore deliberately.
Corpus desk
Index EN-igg · igg · English
igg · rank #41,684 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,684
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH ICANN
Nearest frequency peer: ICANN (-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 “igg”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- hounded
hounded
58,321 corpus weight
- IaC
IaC
58,320 corpus weight
- ICANN
ICANN
58,318 corpus weight
- igg
igg
58,317 corpus weight
- Immanuel
Immanuel
58,315 corpus weight
- implode
implode
58,313 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “igg” 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 | igg |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #41,684 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “igg”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for igg is neighbouring look-alikes ("in", "is", …), not just typos; it is averb. Frequency #41,684 among 2,140 “I” headwords. Gloss: "To ignore deliberately.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for igg in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "in", "is", "it", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Clipping of ignore. The correct English form is igg, spelled I-G-G.
Definition
- 1To ignore deliberately.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how igg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1953, Langston Hughes, ‘Simple Takes a Wife’, in 2002, Donna Sullivan Harper (editor), The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The Early Simple Stories, Volume 7, page 202, But not knowing my own mind, I made it hard for Mabel, keeping late hours, igging her, and playing Cherie. Then, one day while Mabel was at work, I packed my clothes and left.
I mean you can know that the little yalla boys and girls or the med and dent students are “igging” you and be igged and conscious (to the degree you are conscious) of it, […]
Etymology
Clipping of ignore.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).