Español homophones
hice/ice
"hice" (#967 written frequency) beats "ice" (#14,863) in this 2-word /ˈise/ cluster. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈise/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "hice" leads at #967, with "ice" trailing at #14,863.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "hice" is 4 letters, "ice" is 3; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across hice, ice: cei. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
hice
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory cehi · private h
ice
3 letters · 2 vowels · shape VCV
Inventory cei · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "hice" when you mean: Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de hacer o de hacerse.
- Write "ice" when you mean: Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de izar.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- hice ← hcie · hhice · hicce · hiec · hise · ihce