immersive
"immersive" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“immersive” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #20,959. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,959
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tending to immerse.
Corpus desk
Index EN-immersive · immersive · English
immersive · rank #20,959 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,959
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH ICU
Nearest frequency peer: ICU (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “immersive”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- hypnosis
hypnosis
79,045 corpus weight
- Iain
Iain
79,044 corpus weight
- ICU
ICU
79,043 corpus weight
- immersive
immersive
79,042 corpus weight
- impeccable
impeccable
79,041 corpus weight
- inbound
inbound
79,040 corpus weight
What this shows “immersive” 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 | immersive |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #20,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “immersive”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around immersive, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,959 among 2,140 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for immersive, with forms such as "imemrsive", "imersive", and "immerisve". 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, "immerse", "immersion", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From immerse + -ive. The correct English form is immersive, spelled I-M-M-E-R-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Tending to immerse.
- 2Giving the impression of immersion.
- 3Using or relating to the immersion technique of language teaching.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how immersive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
An immersive system usually allows the user to move around physically so it is important that the real world allows sufficient space for this to happen safely.
However, I maintain that many immersive theatre performances still tend to assign audiences to a scheme of production that is neoliberal in character and that affects the values and meanings that are attributable to that scheme of production.
Etymology
From immerse + -ive.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imemrsive
- imersive
- immerisve
- immerrsive
- immersiev
- immersivve
- immerssive
- immersvie
- immesrive
- immresive
- mimersive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of immersive - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "immersive", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).