ich
\iːt͡ʃ\
The verdict
“ich” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,841) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,841
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Je (première personne du singulier nominatif).
Corpus desk
Index FR-ich · ich · French
ich · rank #27,841 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,841
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH héroïques
Nearest frequency peer: héroïques (-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 « ich »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- homosexuell…
homosexuelles
72,163 corpus weight
- homéopathie
homéopathie
72,162 corpus weight
- héroïques
héroïques
72,161 corpus weight
- ich
ich
72,160 corpus weight
- importait
importait
72,159 corpus weight
- incarnent
incarnent
72,158 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ich » 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 | ich |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \iːt͡ʃ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,841 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ich »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ich is neighbouring look-alikes ("il", "ii", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced \iːt͡ʃ\. Frequency #27,841 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Je (première personne du singulier nominatif).".
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, "il", "ii", "it", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ich, spelled I-C-H.
Definition
- 1Je (première personne du singulier nominatif).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dost thinke 'chill labor to be poore, No no, ich haue a-doe..Ich will a plundering too.
My maysters, ich am an old man, and halfe blinde, […]
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).