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inspite

preposition

inspite is a preposition meaning “despite, irrespective of, notwithstanding” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-N-S-P-I-T-E, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does inspite mean?

preposition

  1. 1

    despite, irrespective of, notwithstanding.

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

How common is inspite?

Inspite appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 62,179th 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).

Words people confuse with inspite

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Where does inspite come from?

From in spite of.

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