imbalanced
"imbalanced" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“imbalanced” is uncommon English (frequency #57,449 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,449
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Experiencing an imbalance; out of balance.
Corpus desk
Index EN-imbalanced · imbalanced · English
imbalanced · rank #57,449 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,449
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH imager
Nearest frequency peer: imager (-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 “imbalanced”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- icicle
icicle
42,555 corpus weight
- Ikeda
Ikeda
42,554 corpus weight
- imager
imager
42,553 corpus weight
- imbalanced
imbalanced
42,552 corpus weight
- impartially
impartially
42,551 corpus weight
- impermeable
impermeable
42,550 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “imbalanced” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imbalanced |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “imbalanced” in English
Rare enough to double-check
imbalanced is uncommon English at frequency #57,449 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Experiencing an imbalance; out of balance.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for imbalanced, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From im- + balanced. The correct English form is imbalanced, spelled I-M-B-A-L-A-N-C-E-D.
Definition
- 1Experiencing an imbalance; out of balance.
Etymology
From im- + balanced.
Synonyms
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).