ice
The verdict
“ice” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,518) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,518
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de iço.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ice · ice · French
ice · rank #10,518 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,518
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH humoriste
Nearest frequency peer: humoriste (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ice »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Hans
Hans
89,486 corpus weight
- Hongrois
Hongrois
89,485 corpus weight
- humoriste
humoriste
89,484 corpus weight
- ice
ice
89,483 corpus weight
- inattendu
inattendu
89,482 corpus weight
- intégrés
intégrés
89,481 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ice » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des 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 | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,518 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ice »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ice is neighbouring look-alikes ("il", "ii", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #10,518 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Variante de iço.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ice in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "il", "ii", "it", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ice, spelled I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de iço.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Trestot ice qui vos plaira,
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).