English Words: I
17,902 words · Page 16 of 359
An evil spirit supposed to oppress people while asleep, especially to have sex with women as they sleep.
Chiefly followed by on or upon: leaning, or lying, reclining, or resting, on something else.
To bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to.
A military action consisting of armed forces of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of destruction, plunder, or bodily harm rather than an intent to conquer territory or alter the established government; contrast invasion in its narrow sense.
The inability to decide on a course of action, especially if two or more possibilities exist.
Having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface.
The act or process of indemnifying, preserving, or securing against loss, damage, or penalty.
Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; dented on the surface; jagged; notched; stamped in.
A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).
The quality or state of being independent; lack of dependence; the state of not being reliant on, or controlled by, others.
The adjustment of an economic variable (such as a salary) according to an index (such as that of inflation).
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter I contains 17,902 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 359 pages, and you are currently viewing page 16. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "I" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.