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inhale

/ɪnˈheɪl/verb, noun

inhale is spelled I-N-H-A-L-E: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,906th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, inhale means “To draw air into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in inhale?

Letters6: I-N-H-A-L-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.8 times per million words; the 20,906th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is inhale?

Inhale appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,906th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce inhale?

  • US /ɪnˈheɪl/

Inhale has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-inhale.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with inhale?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as inhale from its last stressed vowel (/eɪl/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of inhale

  • inhales present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • inhaling participle, present
  • inhaled participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does inhale mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    To draw air into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.

  2. 2

    To draw air or any form of gas (either in a pure form, or mixed with small particles in the form of aerosols/smoke, sometimes stemming from a medicament) into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.

  3. 3

    To eat very quickly.

noun

  1. 1

    An inhalation.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Inhale in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchinspirer (to draw air into the lungs), aspirer, inhaler (to draw something into the nose or lungs), ingurgiter (to eat fast)
Germaneinatmen (to draw air into the lungs), inhalieren (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
Portugueseinalar, inspirar (to draw air into the lungs)
Spanishinhalar, alentar (to draw air into the lungs), aspirar, inspirar (to draw something into the nose or lungs)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does inhale come from?

From Latin inhalare (“to breathe on (breathe in)”), from in (“in, into, on”) + halare (“to breathe”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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