# IES vs it's

> Spanish confusable word pair

## The two words

### IES
*abbrev · IPA [ˈjes] · frequency rank #21,019*
Instituto de Educación Secundaria (España).

### it's
*contraction · IPA /ɪts/ · frequency rank #10,360*
Contracción de el pronombre it ("ello") y el verbo is ("es").

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/es/vs/ies-vs-it-s