immigrant
im·mi·grant/ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/noun, adjective
immigrant is spelled I-M-M-I-G-R-A-N-T, 3 syllables: im·mi·grant. The wrong spelling people search most is imigrant: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 24 of all searches for the word. Immigrant is a noun meaning “A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there”. The plural of immigrant is immigrants.
How many letters and syllables are in immigrant?
| Letters | 9: I-M-M-I-G-R-A-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: im·mi·grant |
| In writing | 11 times per million words; the 6,674th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, imigrant, about 70 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 immigrant?
Immigrant is spelled I-M-M-I-G-R-A-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 24 of the searches for immigrant in either form.
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 immigrant?
Immigrant appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,674th 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 immigrant?
- /ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/
Immigrant has 3 syllables, split im·mi·grant in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-immigrant.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with immigrant
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of immigrant
- immigrants plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does immigrant mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there.
Approximately 1.5 million Mexicans are descendants of Irish immigrants.
- 2
A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.
adjective
- 1
Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Immigrant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense person who comes to a country to settle:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | immigrant, immigrante, immigré, immigrée |
| German | Einwanderer, Einwanderin, Immigrant, Immigrantin |
| Portuguese | imigrante |
| Spanish | inmigrante |
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 immigrant come from?
From Latin immigrans, present active participle of immigrāre (“to migrate into”), from in- (“into”) + migrāre (“to migrate”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).