informations
"informations" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“informations” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #42,204 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #42,204
- frequency rank, English
- 12
- letters
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural of information
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | informations |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #42,204 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “informations” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for informations is 12 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #42,204 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for informations, with forms such as "ifnormations", "infformations", and "infomrations". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "information", "informatics", "informational", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is informations, spelled I-N-F-O-R-M-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1plural of information
- 2plural of information
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ifnormations,infformations,infomrations,inforamtions,informaitons,informatinos,informationns,informationss,informatiosn,informatoins,informattions,informmations,informtaions,inforrmations,infromations,innformations,inofrmations,niformations
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of informations - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “informations”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is I-N-F-O-R-M-A-T-I-O-N-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “information” - see the side-by-side comparison. informations vs information
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.