inc
"inc" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“inc” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,760) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,760
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abbreviation of increase.
Corpus desk
Index EN-inc · inc · English
inc · rank #1,760 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,760
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH housing
Nearest frequency peer: housing (-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 “inc”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- garden
garden
98,244 corpus weight
- host
host
98,243 corpus weight
- housing
housing
98,242 corpus weight
- inc
inc
98,241 corpus weight
- Israel
Israel
98,240 corpus weight
- journal
journal
98,239 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “inc” 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 | inc |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “inc”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for inc is neighbouring look-alikes ("is", "it", …), not just typos; it is averb. Frequency #1,760 among 2,140 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Abbreviation of increase.".
No misspelling variants are generated for inc in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "is", "it", "IV", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is inc, spelled I-N-C.
Definition
- 1Abbreviation of increase.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how inc appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Change to larger needles and knit 1 rnd in CC, inc 3 (4, 5) sts evenly[…]
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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