ich
[ɪç]
The verdict
“ich” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,406) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,406
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Yo (pronombre de primera persona singular)
Corpus desk
Index ES-ich · ich · Spanish
ich · rank #41,406 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,406
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH illa
Nearest frequency peer: illa (+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 “ich”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- horrorizado
horrorizado
58,599 corpus weight
- huh
huh
58,598 corpus weight
- Huidobro
Huidobro
58,597 corpus weight
- ich
ich
58,595 corpus weight
- illa
illa
58,594 corpus weight
- impartiendo
impartiendo
58,592 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ich” 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 | ich |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [ɪç] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #41,406 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ich”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ich is neighbouring look-alikes ("ir", "ii", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced [ɪç]. Frequency #41,406 among 3,428 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Yo (pronombre de primera persona singular)".
No misspelling variants are generated for ich in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is ich, spelled I-C-H.
Definition
- 1Yo (pronombre de primera persona singular)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich habe sie nicht gesehen.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).