inmate
/ˈɪn.meɪt/noun
inmate is spelled I-N-M-A-T-E: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 14,106th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, inmate means “A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of inmate is inmates.
How many letters and syllables are in inmate?
| Letters | 6: I-N-M-A-T-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.5 times per million words; the 14,106th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is inmate?
Inmate appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 14,106th 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 inmate?
- US /ˈɪn.meɪt/
Inmate 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-inmate.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of inmate
- inmates plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does inmate mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient).
- 2
A person who shares a residence (such as a hotel guest, a lodger, or a student living on campus), or other place.
- 3
Synonym of passenger, a person held or riding within a vehicle.
P. della Valle writes in the same strain: "And these two, the palankins and the andors [a kind of doli] also differ from one another, for in the andor the cane which sustains it is, as it is in the reti, straight; whereas in the palankin, f
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Inmate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | détenu, détenue, codétenu, codétenue , résident, résidente |
| German | Insasse, Insassin , Bewohner, Bewohnerin |
| Portuguese | interno |
| Spanish | internado, interno, preso, recluso, presidiario, reo |
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 inmate come from?
From inn + -mate, or from in- + -mate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).