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immense

/ɪˈmɛns/adjective, noun

immense is spelled I-M-M-E-N-S-E. The wrong spelling people search most is imense: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 24 of all searches for the word. Immense is an adjective meaning “Huge, gigantic, very large”.

How many letters and syllables are in immense?

Letters7: I-M-M-E-N-S-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing7.6 times per million words; the 8,542nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, imense, about 80 Bing searches a month (all of them)

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

How do you spell immense?

Immense is spelled I-M-M-E-N-S-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 24 of the searches for immense in either form.

immensethe right spelling1,870 searches a month
imensea missing m80 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is immense?

Immense appears 7.6 times per million words in written English, the 8,542nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce immense?

  • /ɪˈmɛns/

Immense has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-immense.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of immense

  • immenser comparative
  • immensest superlative
  • immenses plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does immense mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Huge, gigantic, very large.

  2. 2

    colloquialSupremely good.

  3. 3

    colloquialMajor; to a great degree.

noun

  1. 1

    Immense extent or expanse; immensity.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Immense in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchimmense (huge, gigantic, very large)
Germanimmens (huge, gigantic, very large)
Portugueseimenso, enorme (huge, gigantic, very large), maravilhoso, ótimo (supremely good)
Spanishinmenso (huge, gigantic, very large)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does immense come from?

From Middle English immens, inmens, from Old French immense, from Latin immensus, from in- (“not”) + mensus (“measured”). Compare incommensurable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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