# inference

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈɪn.fə.ɹəns/ · frequency rank #20,963

## Definitions
1. The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
2. That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.
3. Output generated by a trained machine learning model as it applies learned patterns to new data.
4. An instance or example of this, such as a prediction, classification, decision, etc.

## Etymology
From Latin inferentia. Morphologically infer + -ence.

## Easily confused with
- **influence** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/inference-vs-influence)

## Common misspellings (14)
`ifnerence`, `inefrence`, `infeernce`, `inferance`, `inferecne`, `inferencce`, `inferenec`, `inferennce`, `infernece`, `inferrence`, `infference`, `infreence`, `innference`, `niference`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/inference