imani
"imani" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“imani” is uncommon English (frequency #65,982 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,982
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - faith (in the context of African-American culture)
Corpus desk
Index EN-imani · imani · English
imani · rank #65,982 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,982
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH impeachable
Nearest frequency peer: impeachable (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “imani”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- icebox
icebox
34,023 corpus weight
- Ileana
Ileana
34,022 corpus weight
- imani
imani
34,019 corpus weight
- impeachable
impeachable
34,018 corpus weight
- imperialist…
imperialistic
34,017 corpus weight
- impinge
impinge
34,016 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “imani” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imani |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “imani” in English
Rare enough to double-check
imani is uncommon English at frequency #65,982 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "faith (in the context of African-American culture)".
imani doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Swahili imani (“faith”). The correct English form is imani, spelled I-M-A-N-I.
Definition
- 1faith (in the context of African-American culture)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how imani appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On Tuesday night at the Club Serene in Brooklyn, Mayor Koch proclaimed Kwanzaa Week in New York. Then he told the crowd of about 400 that he had practiced his Swahili in order to pronounce correctly such exotic-sounding words as kujichagulia (self-determination), ujamaa (cooperative economics) and imani (faith), the theme of Kwanzaa '83.
Etymology
Borrowed from Swahili imani (“faith”).
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).