# insert

> English word · Verb · IPA /ɪnˈsɜːt/ · frequency rank #7,019

## Definitions
1. To put in between or into.

## Etymology
From Latin insertus, past participle of inserō, from in- + serō (“join, bind together, connect, entwine, interweave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together, to line up”). Compare exsert.

## Easily confused with
- **inset** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/insert-vs-inset)
- **invest** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/insert-vs-invest)
- **intent** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/insert-vs-intent)
- **insist** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/insert-vs-insist)
- **insult** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/insert-vs-insult)
- **intern** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/insert-vs-intern)
- **invent** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/insert-vs-invent)
- **insure** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/insert-vs-insure)
- **invert** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/insert-vs-invert)
- **inspect** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/insert-vs-inspect)
- **inserted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/insert-vs-inserted)
- **inner** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/inner-vs-insert)
- **inlet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/inlet-vs-insert)
- **infer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/infer-vs-insert)
- **inept** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/inept-vs-insert)
- **inert** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/inert-vs-insert)
- **insect** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/insect-vs-insert)
- **inject** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/inject-vs-insert)
- **incest** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/incest-vs-insert)
- **infect** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/infect-vs-insert)

## Common misspellings (9)
`inesrt`, `innsert`, `inserrt`, `insertt`, `insetr`, `insret`, `inssert`, `isnert`, `nisert`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/insert