IME
"ime" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“IME” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,112) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,112
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of input method editor.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ime · IME · English
IME · rank #47,112 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,112
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH impetuous
Nearest frequency peer: impetuous (+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 “IME”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- hydrological
hydrological
52,894 corpus weight
- IME
IME
52,889 corpus weight
- impetuous
impetuous
52,888 corpus weight
- inadequately
inadequately
52,887 corpus weight
- indignity
indignity
52,885 corpus weight
- indisputably
indisputably
52,884 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “IME” 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 | IME |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #47,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “IME”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for IME is neighbouring look-alikes ("in", "is", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #47,112 among 2,140 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Initialism of input method editor.".
IME has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is IME, spelled I-M-E.
Definition
- 1Initialism of input method editor.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how IME appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Japanese IMEs can work with both QWERTY keyboards and Japanese keyboards.
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).