inclement
/ɪnˈklɛm.ənt/adjective
inclement is spelled I-N-C-L-E-M-E-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is inclimate: about 420 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Inclement is an adjective meaning “Stormy, of rough weather; not clement”.
How many letters and syllables are in inclement?
| Letters | 9: I-N-C-L-E-M-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 36,998th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, inclimate, about 420 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 inclement?
Inclement is spelled I-N-C-L-E-M-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for inclement 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 inclement?
Inclement appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,998th 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 inclement?
- US /ɪnˈklɛm.ənt/
- US /ˈɪn.kləm.ənt/
Inclement has 3 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-inclement.ogg, En-au-inclement.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of inclement
- more inclement comparative
- most inclement superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does inclement mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Stormy, of rough weather; not clement.
inclement weather
- 2
obsoleteMerciless, unrelenting.
- 3
archaicUnmercifully severe in temper or action.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Inclement in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | inclemente, destemplado, desapacible, tempestuoso, borrascoso |
| French | inclément |
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 inclement come from?
From Latin inclēmēns (“unmerciful, severe”), from in- (“not”) + clēmēns (“mild, placid”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).