inflexibility
"inflexibility" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“inflexibility” is uncommon English (frequency #75,991 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,991
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness
Corpus desk
Index EN-inflexibility · inflexibility · English
inflexibility · rank #75,991 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,991
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH indiscipline
Nearest frequency peer: indiscipline (-2 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 “inflexibility”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- incommunica…
incommunicado
24,014 corpus weight
- Indic
Indic
24,013 corpus weight
- indiscipline
indiscipline
24,012 corpus weight
- inflexibili…
inflexibility
24,010 corpus weight
- innervation
innervation
24,008 corpus weight
- inscribe
inscribe
24,006 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “inflexibility” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “inflexibility” in English
Rare enough to double-check
inflexibility is uncommon English at frequency #75,991 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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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