inbred
/ˈɪnˌbɹɛd/adjective, noun, verb
inbred is spelled I-N-B-R-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is imbred: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Inbred is an adjective meaning “Bred within; innate”.
How many letters and syllables are in inbred?
| Letters | 6: I-N-B-R-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 32,798th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, imbred, about 80 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell inbred?
Inbred is spelled I-N-B-R-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for inbred 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 inbred?
Inbred appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,798th 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 inbred?
- /ˈɪnˌbɹɛd/
- /ˈɪnˌbɹɛd/
- /ˌɪnˈbɹɛd/
As a noun (“A plant or animal produced by inbreeding”): /ˈɪnˌbɹɛd/.
As a verb: /ˈɪnˌbɹɛd/, /ˌɪnˈbɹɛd/.
Inbred has 2 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-inbred.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with inbred
Also written: in-bred (one word or two).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with inbred?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as inbred.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: binder, rebind.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of inbred
- more inbred comparative
- most inbred superlative
- inbreds plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does inbred mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Bred within; innate.
- 2
derogatoryHaving an ancestry characterized by inbreeding.
- 3
Describing a strain produced through successive generations of inbreeding resulting in a population of genetically identical individuals which are homozygous at all genetic loci.
- 4
Insular or self-contained, primarily interacting with and drawing upon one another.
noun
- 1
A plant or animal produced by inbreeding.
- 2
vulgarA person born of incest.
Since you all marry your cousins I bet you're a bunch of inbreds.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of inbreed
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Inbred in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | angeboren , inzüchtig |
| Portuguese | inato , consanguíneo, endogâmico |
| French | consanguin |
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 inbred come from?
From the past participle of inbreed, equivalent to in- + bred.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).