immersion
/ɪˈmɜːʃən/
"immersion" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“immersion” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #15,632 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #15,632
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
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 | immersion |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɪˈmɜːʃən/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “immersion” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for immersion is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɪˈmɜːʃən/. Corpus data places it at rank #15,632 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for immersion, with forms such as "imemrsion", "imersion", and "immerison". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "inversion", "immersive", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin immersiō, immersiōnem (“dipping”). The correct English form is immersion, spelled I-M-M-E-R-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
- 2The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
- 3An immersion heater.
- 4A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.
- 5The disappearance of a celestial body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite.
- 6A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.
- 7One's suspension of disbelief while reading, playing a video game, etc. The experience of losing oneself in a fictional world.
- 8A creative relationship with one's social and ecological environment as practiced by the Brooklyn Immersionists.
Etymology
From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin immersiō, immersiōnem (“dipping”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imemrsion,imersion,immerison,immerrsion,immersino,immersionn,immersoin,immerssion,immertion,immesrion,immresion,mimersion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of immersion - 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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Using “immersion”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is I-M-M-E-R-S-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ɪˈmɜːʃən/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “inversion” - see the side-by-side comparison. immersion vs inversion
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.