II
"ii" is a 2-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“II” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,020) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,020
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of illegal immigrant.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ii · II · English
II · rank #1,020 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,020
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH funny
Nearest frequency peer: funny (-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 “II”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- except
except
98,984 corpus weight
- eye
eye
98,983 corpus weight
- funny
funny
98,982 corpus weight
- II
II
98,981 corpus weight
- limited
limited
98,980 corpus weight
- moving
moving
98,979 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “II” 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 | II |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #1,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “II”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for II is neighbouring look-alikes ("in", "is", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #1,020 among 2,140 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Initialism of illegal immigrant.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for II in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is II, spelled I-I.
Definition
- 1Initialism of illegal immigrant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how II appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“When I came here eight years ago, it was easy to spot an II (illegal immigrant),” one British official here said. “They came across in dark navy clothes. Now, they come in designer T-shirts and Levis, and it’s hard to tell them from residents of Hong Kong.”
Hong Kong can also follow the international trend of phasing out the rule that a child born by an II will automatically be granted citizenship of the place where he or she is born, in order to eradicate the problems of stowaways and II children.
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.