inanity
/ɪˈnænɪti/
"inanity" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“inanity” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The property of being inane, of lacking material of interest or satisfaction, emptiness.
Corpus desk
Index EN-inanity · inanity · English
inanity · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inanity |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɪˈnænɪti/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “inanity” in English
Rare enough to double-check
inanity is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɪˈnænɪti/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
inanity has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French inanité, from Latin inanitas, equivalent to inane + -ity. The correct English form is inanity, spelled I-N-A-N-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1The property of being inane, of lacking material of interest or satisfaction, emptiness.
- 2Something that is inane.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inanity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
All those who criticise the inanity of the effort required by the stemmatic approach without clearly adopting a position of their own, do not, in my view, touch upon the core of the problem […]
Working in any bureaucracy means being bedeviled by inanities daily.
Etymology
From French inanité, from Latin inanitas, equivalent to inane + -ity.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.