ii
/ˈji/
The verdict
“ii” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #968) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #968
- 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 del perfecto activo de indicativo de eō.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ii · ii · Spanish
ii · rank #968 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #968
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH hice
Nearest frequency peer: hice (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “ii”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- española
española
99,036 corpus weight
- formación
formación
99,035 corpus weight
- hice
hice
99,034 corpus weight
- ii
ii
99,033 corpus weight
- importancia
importancia
99,032 corpus weight
- industria
industria
99,031 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “ii” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | ii |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈji/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “ii” en la frecuencia del español
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ii is neighbouring look-alikes ("ir", "is", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /ˈji/. Frequency #968 among 3,428 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Primera persona del singular del perfecto activo de indicativo de eō.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ii in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ir", "is", "it", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 ii, spelled I-I.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular del perfecto activo de indicativo de eō.
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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- Usage frequency rank #968 among Spanish headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.