inevitable
/ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/adjective, noun
inevitable is spelled I-N-E-V-I-T-A-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is enevitable: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 95 of all searches for the word. Inevitable is an adjective meaning “Impossible to avoid or prevent”.
How many letters and syllables are in inevitable?
| Letters | 10: I-N-E-V-I-T-A-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 12 times per million words; the 6,230th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, enevitable, about 40 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 inevitable?
Inevitable is spelled I-N-E-V-I-T-A-B-L-E. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 48 of the searches for inevitable 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 inevitable?
Inevitable appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,230th 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 inevitable?
- UK /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/
- UK [ɪˈnɛv.ɪ.tə.bɫ̩]
- US /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/
Inevitable has 5 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-inevitable.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of inevitable
- more inevitable comparative
- most inevitable superlative
- inevitables plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does inevitable mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Impossible to avoid or prevent.
We were going so fast that the collision was inevitable.
- 2
Predictable or always happening.
My outburst met with the inevitable punishment.
noun
- 1
Something that is predictable, necessary, or cannot be avoided.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Inevitable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | inévitable |
| German | unvermeidlich, unabwendbar , zwangsläufig |
| Portuguese | inevitável |
| Spanish | inevitable |
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 inevitable come from?
From Middle French inevitable, from Latin inēvītābilis (“unavoidable”), from in- + ēvītābilis (“avoidable”), from ēvītāre (“to avoid”), from ē- (“out”) + vītāre (“to shun”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).