immediate
/ɪˈmiː.dɪət/
"immediate" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“immediate” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #2,899. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,899
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Happening right away, instantly, with no delay.
Corpus desk
Index EN-immediate · immediate · English
immediate · rank #2,899 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,899
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH introduction
Nearest frequency peer: introduction (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “immediate”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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grab
97,105 corpus weight
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Hollywood
97,104 corpus weight
- immediate
immediate
97,102 corpus weight
- introduction
introduction
97,101 corpus weight
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Joseph
97,100 corpus weight
- license
license
97,099 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “immediate” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | immediate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɪˈmiː.dɪət/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #2,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “immediate” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around immediate (IPA /ɪˈmiː.dɪət/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,899 among 2,140 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for immediate, with forms such as "imediate", "imemdiate", and "immdeiate". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "immediately", "immediacy", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Old French immediat (French immédiat), borrowed from Late Latin immediātus (“without in-between, moderation”), from Latin in + mediātus, perfect passive participle of mediō (“to halve, to be in the middle”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from m… The correct English form is immediate, spelled I-M-M-E-D-I-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Happening right away, instantly, with no delay.
- 2Very close; direct or adjacent.
- 3Manifestly true; requiring no argument.
- 4Embedded as part of the instruction itself, rather than stored elsewhere (such as a register or memory location).
- 5Used to denote that a transmission is urgent.
- 6An artillery fire mission modifier for two types of fire mission to denote an immediate need for fire: Immediate smoke, all guns involved must reload smoke and fire. Immediate suppression, all guns involved fire the rounds currently loaded and then switch to high explosive with impact fused (unless fuses are specified).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how immediate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Computer users these days expect immediate results when they click on a link.
Assemble we immediate council.
Etymology
From Old French immediat (French immédiat), borrowed from Late Latin immediātus (“without in-between, moderation”), from Latin in + mediātus, perfect passive participle of mediō (“to halve, to be in the middle”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from medius (“middle”). By surface analysis, im- + mediate.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imediate
- imemdiate
- immdeiate
- immedaite
- immeddiate
- immediaet
- immediatte
- immeditae
- immeidate
- mimediate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of immediate - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "immediate", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "immediate" maps to 2 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "immediately". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #2,899 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "I" letter cohort. I–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.