inflexibility
"inflexibility" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“inflexibility” is an uncommon English word, ranked #75,991 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #75,991
- frequency rank, English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inflexibility |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #75,991 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “inflexibility” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for inflexibility is 13 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #75,991 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for inflexibility, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French inflexibilité, from Old French inflectibilité. Equivalent to in- + flexibility or inflexible + -ity. The correct English form is inflexibility, spelled I-N-F-L-E-X-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness
Etymology
From French inflexibilité, from Old French inflectibilité. Equivalent to in- + flexibility or inflexible + -ity.
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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Using “inflexibility”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is I-N-F-L-E-X-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.