IOC
"ioc" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“IOC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,248) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,248
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of International Olympic Committee.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ioc · IOC · English
IOC · rank #21,248 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,248
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH intimately
Nearest frequency peer: intimately (-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 “IOC”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- infiltration
infiltration
78,756 corpus weight
- insidious
insidious
78,755 corpus weight
- intimately
intimately
78,754 corpus weight
- IOC
IOC
78,753 corpus weight
- issa
issa
78,752 corpus weight
- jargon
jargon
78,751 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “IOC” 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 | IOC |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “IOC”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for IOC is neighbouring look-alikes ("is", "it", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #21,248 among 2,140 “I” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for IOC in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. 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 headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is IOC, spelled I-O-C.
Definition
- 1Initialism of International Olympic Committee.
- 2Initialism of International Ornithological Committee (now known as International Ornithologists' Union)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how IOC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The IBA had been stripped of recognition by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) over governance failures and therefore it was the IOC which ran – and set the entry criteria for – the Olympic boxing competitions in Paris.
This word in other languages
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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