immodest
/ɪˈmɑdəst/
"immodest" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“immodest” is uncommon English (frequency #69,131 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,131
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Without customary restraint or modesty of expression; shameless.
Corpus desk
Index EN-immodest · immodest · English
immodest · rank #69,131 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,131
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH immanent
Nearest frequency peer: immanent (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “immodest”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- IGO
IGO
30,872 corpus weight
- immanent
immanent
30,871 corpus weight
- immodest
immodest
30,870 corpus weight
- Imphal
Imphal
30,869 corpus weight
- imu
imu
30,868 corpus weight
- incompletely
incompletely
30,866 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “immodest” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | immodest |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɪˈmɑdəst/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “immodest” in English
Rare enough to double-check
immodest is uncommon English at frequency #69,131 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ɪˈmɑdəst/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Without customary restraint or modesty of expression; shameless.".
Zero misspellings are on record for immodest in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From im- + modest. The correct English form is immodest, spelled I-M-M-O-D-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1Without customary restraint or modesty of expression; shameless.
Etymology
From im- + modest.
Synonyms
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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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