Ivo
/ˈaɪvəʊ/
"ivo" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Ivo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,870) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,870
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ivo · Ivo · English
Ivo · rank #39,870 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,870
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH irrefutable
Nearest frequency peer: irrefutable (-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 “Ivo”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- invertebrate
invertebrate
60,135 corpus weight
- iridium
iridium
60,133 corpus weight
- irrefutable
irrefutable
60,132 corpus weight
- Ivo
Ivo
60,131 corpus weight
- Jacobi
Jacobi
60,130 corpus weight
- Jammer
Jammer
60,128 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “Ivo” 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 | Ivo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈaɪvəʊ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,870 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “Ivo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ivo is neighbouring look-alikes ("iz", "ivy", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced /ˈaɪvəʊ/. Frequency #39,870 among 2,140 “I” headwords. Gloss: "A male given name from the Germanic languages.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Ivo, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "iz", "ivy", "IWC", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Latinate form of a medieval name of Old French origin, from Proto-Germanic *īhwaz (“yew, bow”). Name of French and English saints. Cognate with modern French Yves. The correct English form is Ivo, spelled I-V-O.
Definition
- 1A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ivo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It was so farcically alien to be called 'Roger' and 'Furnivall' in a place where everybody had names like Ivo and Gito and Madog.
Etymology
Latinate form of a medieval name of Old French origin, from Proto-Germanic *īhwaz (“yew, bow”). Name of French and English saints. Cognate with modern French Yves.
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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