ice
[ˈise]
The verdict
“ice” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,863) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,863
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de izar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ice · ice · Spanish
ice · rank #14,863 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,863
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH Hoyos
Nearest frequency peer: Hoyos (-2 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 “ice”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Herrero
Herrero
85,142 corpus weight
- horrores
horrores
85,141 corpus weight
- Hoyos
Hoyos
85,140 corpus weight
- ice
ice
85,138 corpus weight
- ilustrar
ilustrar
85,136 corpus weight
- ilícito
ilícito
85,135 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ice” 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 | ice |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈise] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,863 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ice”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ice is neighbouring look-alikes ("ir", "ii", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈise]. Frequency #14,863 among 3,428 “I” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ice, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ir", "ii", "is", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is ice, spelled I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de izar.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de izar.
- 3Segunda persona del singular (usted) del imperativo de izar.
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).