Inari
"inari" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Inari” is uncommon English (frequency #84,390 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,390
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The god of harvests, fertility, rice, agriculture, foxes, industry, and worldly success.
Corpus desk
Index EN-inari · Inari · English
Inari · rank #84,390 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,390
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH incivility
Nearest frequency peer: incivility (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Inari”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- immer
immer
15,614 corpus weight
- impost
impost
15,613 corpus weight
- Inari
Inari
15,611 corpus weight
- incivility
incivility
15,610 corpus weight
- indigestible
indigestible
15,609 corpus weight
- inescapably
inescapably
15,608 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Inari” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Inari |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,390 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Inari” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Inari is uncommon English at frequency #84,390 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The god of harvests, fertility, rice, agriculture, foxes, industry, and worldly success.".
Inari doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Japanese 稲荷 (Inari). The correct English form is Inari, spelled I-N-A-R-I.
Definition
- 1The god of harvests, fertility, rice, agriculture, foxes, industry, and worldly success.
Etymology
From Japanese 稲荷 (Inari).
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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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.