imu
"imu" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“imu” is uncommon English (frequency #69,133 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,133
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A traditional Hawaiian underground oven, consisting mainly of a hole in the ground.
Corpus desk
Index EN-imu · imu · English
imu · rank #69,133 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,133
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH Imphal
Nearest frequency peer: Imphal (-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 “imu”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- 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
- inexpensive…
inexpensively
30,865 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “imu” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imu |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #69,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “imu” in English
Rare enough to double-check
imu is uncommon English at frequency #69,133 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A traditional Hawaiian underground oven, consisting mainly of a hole in the ground.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for imu, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Hawaiian imu. Doublet of umu. The correct English form is imu, spelled I-M-U.
Definition
- 1A traditional Hawaiian underground oven, consisting mainly of a hole in the ground.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hawaiian imu. Doublet of umu.
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
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).