Venice
/ˈvɛnɪs/
"venice" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Venice” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #7,997 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #7,997
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A port city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Venice and the region of Veneto, Italy; former capital of an independent republic.
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 | Venice |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈvɛnɪs/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Venice” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Venice is 6 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈvɛnɪs/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,997 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Venice, with forms such as "evnice", "veince", and "vencie". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "vice", "voice", "venue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English Venyse, from Old French Venise or Old Italian, from Medieval Latin Venetia, from Latin Venetī + -ia (suffix forming place names), a local tribe in antiquity whose own little-attested language is now known as Venetic. Initial scholarly ag… The correct English form is Venice, spelled V-E-N-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1A port city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Venice and the region of Veneto, Italy; former capital of an independent republic.
- 2A metropolitan city of Veneto, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Venice.
- 3A former province of Veneto.
- 4A former polity in Europe, a republic and colonial empire around the Adriatic and eastern Mediterranean from CE 697 to 1797 with its capital at Venice.
- 5A township in Illinois, United States.
- 6A township in Michigan, United States.
- 7A township in Ohio, United States.
- 8A neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.
Etymology
From Middle English Venyse, from Old French Venise or Old Italian, from Medieval Latin Venetia, from Latin Venetī + -ia (suffix forming place names), a local tribe in antiquity whose own little-attested language is now known as Venetic. Initial scholarly agreement that they were Illyrian was based on arguments since refuted. They worshipped Belenus and were possibly Celtic or heavily influenced by Celtic culture, despite repeatedly supporting the Romans against the Gauls. Compare the identical ethnonym Venetī used for Celts of Armorica (ancient Britanny) from Gaulish Uenetoi (“friendly ones, kinsmen”), from Proto-Celtic *wenet, a modified form of *wenyā (“kindred”). Widely but mistakenly derived by the ancient Greeks and Romans from the Eneti of Pamphylia, supposed to have fled to the Adriatic and become the Veneti after supporting the losing side of the Trojan War. As American places, named after the Italian city. Doublet of Venetia and Venezia.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: evnice,veince,vencie,venicce,veniec,vennice,vneice,vvenice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Venice - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “Venice”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is V-E-N-I-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈvɛnɪs/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “vice” - see the side-by-side comparison. Venice vs vice
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.