IMDb
"imdb" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“IMDb” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #21,544. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,544
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of Internet Movie Database, a website that documents movies and television shows.
Corpus desk
Index EN-imdb · IMDb · English
IMDb · rank #21,544 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,544
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH humming
Nearest frequency peer: humming (-2 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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “IMDb”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- hoard
hoard
78,461 corpus weight
- horde
horde
78,460 corpus weight
- humming
humming
78,459 corpus weight
- IMDb
IMDb
78,457 corpus weight
- implicitly
implicitly
78,455 corpus weight
- inconsisten…
inconsistency
78,454 corpus weight
What this shows “IMDb” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | IMDb |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #21,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “IMDb”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around IMDb, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #21,544 among 2,140 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Initialism of Internet Movie Database, a website that documents movies and television shows.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for IMDb, with forms such as "idmb", "imbd", and "imdbb". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "IMO", "Ind", "IMF", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is IMDb, spelled I-M-D-B.
Definition
- 1Initialism of Internet Movie Database, a website that documents movies and television shows.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how IMDb appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Documentary filmmaker Cristina Ibarra is among the 25 fellows. Ibarra is known for creating narratives about Latino families living in borderland communities, the MacArthur website said. Her latest film, “The Infiltrators,” tells the story of young immigrants who get arrested by Border Patrol and detained in a for-profit detention center, according to the…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- idmb
- imbd
- imdbb
- imddb
- immdb
- midb
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of IMDb - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "IMDb", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).