Ike
/aɪk/
"ike" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Ike” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,730) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,730
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A diminutive of the male given name Isaac.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ike · Ike · English
Ike · rank #16,730 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,730
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH Hutchinson
Nearest frequency peer: Hutchinson (-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 “Ike”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- hemp
hemp
83,275 corpus weight
- hitch
hitch
83,274 corpus weight
- Hutchinson
Hutchinson
83,272 corpus weight
- Ike
Ike
83,271 corpus weight
- incarnation
incarnation
83,270 corpus weight
- intrusion
intrusion
83,268 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “Ike” 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 | Ike |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /aɪk/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,730 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “Ike”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ike is neighbouring look-alikes ("in", "is", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced /aɪk/. Frequency #16,730 among 2,140 “I” headwords. Gloss: "A diminutive of the male given name Isaac.".
Ike doesn't appear in our generated misspelling 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.
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 Ike, spelled I-K-E.
Definition
- 1A diminutive of the male given name Isaac.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).