inaccurate
/ɪnˈæ.kjʊ.ɹət/adjective
inaccurate is spelled I-N-A-C-C-U-R-A-T-E. The wrong spelling people search most is innacurate: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Inaccurate is an adjective meaning “Mistaken or incorrect; not accurate”.
How many letters and syllables are in inaccurate?
| Letters | 10: I-N-A-C-C-U-R-A-T-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.5 times per million words; the 12,045th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, innacurate, about 100 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 inaccurate?
Inaccurate is spelled I-N-A-C-C-U-R-A-T-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for inaccurate 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 inaccurate?
Inaccurate appears 4.5 times per million words in written English, the 12,045th 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 inaccurate?
- UK /ɪnˈæ.kjʊ.ɹət/
- UK /ɪnˈæk.jə.ɹɪt/
- UK /ɪnˈæk.jə.ɹət/
Inaccurate has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-inaccurate.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of inaccurate
- more inaccurate comparative
- most inaccurate superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does inaccurate mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Mistaken or incorrect; not accurate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Inaccurate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense not accurate:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | imprécis |
| German | inakkurat |
| Spanish | desatinado, desacertado |
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 inaccurate come from?
From in- + accurate. See also unaccurate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).