infuriate
/ɪnˈfjʊəɹieɪt/
"infuriate" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“infuriate” is an uncommon English word, ranked #58,765 in English word frequency and used as a verb.
- #58,765
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To make furious or mad with anger; to fill with fury.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | infuriate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɪnˈfjʊəɹieɪt/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “infuriate” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for infuriate is 9 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɪnˈfjʊəɹieɪt/. Corpus data places it at rank #58,765 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "To make furious or mad with anger; to fill with fury.".
infuriate has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: First attested in 1667; borrowed from Medieval Latin infuriātus (“enraged”), perfect passive participle of infuriō (“to enrage”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin furia (“rage, fury, frenzy”); perhaps via Italian infuriato. The correct English form is infuriate, spelled I-N-F-U-R-I-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1To make furious or mad with anger; to fill with fury.
Etymology
First attested in 1667; borrowed from Medieval Latin infuriātus (“enraged”), perfect passive participle of infuriō (“to enrage”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin furia (“rage, fury, frenzy”); perhaps via Italian infuriato.
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 “infuriate”
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- The one correct English spelling is I-N-F-U-R-I-A-T-E - 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.