Ica
[ˈika]
The verdict
“Ica” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,449) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,449
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ciudad peruana; capital del departamento homónimo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ica · Ica · Spanish
Ica · rank #17,449 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,449
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH hubieron
Nearest frequency peer: hubieron (-1 rank slots)
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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “Ica”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- hongo
hongo
82,555 corpus weight
- hortalizas
hortalizas
82,554 corpus weight
- hubieron
hubieron
82,553 corpus weight
- Ica
Ica
82,552 corpus weight
- indigna
indigna
82,551 corpus weight
- industriali…
industrialización
82,550 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “Ica” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | Ica |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈika] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “Ica”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ica is neighbouring look-alikes ("ir", "ii", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ˈika]. Frequency #17,449 among 3,428 “I” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Ica, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ir", "ii", "is", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is Ica, spelled I-C-A.
Definition
- 1Ciudad peruana; capital del departamento homónimo.
- 2Departamento peruano al suroeste del país.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).