infovsinnaWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: info is a noun, inna is a contraction, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“info” is a noun and “inna” is a contraction - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#2,489
“info” frequency rank
#47,692
“inna” frequency rank
50181
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature info inna
Definition information. In the.

Letter map: info vs inna

Shared letters muted; letters that set info and inna apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. info and inna follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
info
4 ch
inna

Part-of-speech tell for info / inna

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: info is anoun and innaacontraction. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50181, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

info is recorded at frequency rank #2,489, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈɪnfəʊ/. inna is at rank #47,692, tagged as acontraction.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 50181, this pair ranks #176,620 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of info vs inna

Shared letters: in. Private to "info": fo. Private to "inna": a.

"info" · 4 letters · shape VCCV  ·  "inna" · 4 letters · shape VCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • info ← ifno · inffo · innfo · inof · nifo
  • inna ← ina · inan

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "info" and "inna" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "info" is a noun and "inna" a contraction, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "info" or "inna"?
"info" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,489 in our English list, against #47,692 for "inna". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "info" and "inna". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "info" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "inna" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #176,620 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "info" and "inna" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "inna vs isha". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #176,620 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list