inebriation
/ɪˌniːbɹiˈeɪʃən/
"inebriation" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“inebriation” is uncommon English (frequency #91,635 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,635
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state or characteristic of drunkenness.
Corpus desk
Index EN-inebriation · inebriation · English
inebriation · rank #91,635 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,635
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH incomprehensi…
Nearest frequency peer: incomprehension (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “inebriation”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ICMP
ICMP
8,376 corpus weight
- immunologic
immunologic
8,370 corpus weight
- incomprehen…
incomprehension
8,367 corpus weight
- inebriation
inebriation
8,366 corpus weight
- interneurons
interneurons
8,361 corpus weight
- interweb
interweb
8,360 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “inebriation” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inebriation |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɪˌniːbɹiˈeɪʃən/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #91,635 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “inebriation” in English
Rare enough to double-check
inebriation is uncommon English at frequency #91,635 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɪˌniːbɹiˈeɪʃən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The state or characteristic of drunkenness.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for inebriation in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Latin inēbriātiō, inēbriātiōnem (“drunkenness”). The correct English form is inebriation, spelled I-N-E-B-R-I-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The state or characteristic of drunkenness.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how inebriation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
in a state of inebriation
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin inēbriātiō, inēbriātiōnem (“drunkenness”).
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); 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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