insufferable
/ɪnˈsʌfəɹəb(ə)l/
"insufferable" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“insufferable” has 17 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #37,517. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,517
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Not sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure; intolerable, unbearable.
Corpus desk
Index EN-insufferable · insufferable · English
insufferable · rank #37,517 · 17 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,517
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH ingress
Nearest frequency peer: ingress (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “insufferable”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- industrious
industrious
62,488 corpus weight
- ingress
ingress
62,485 corpus weight
- insufferable
insufferable
62,484 corpus weight
- int'l
int'l
62,483 corpus weight
- interred
interred
62,482 corpus weight
- isometric
isometric
62,479 corpus weight
What this shows “insufferable” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | insufferable |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɪnˈsʌfəɹəb(ə)l/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #37,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “insufferable”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around insufferable (IPA /ɪnˈsʌfəɹəb(ə)l/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #37,517 among 2,140 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Not sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure; intolerable, unbearable.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for insufferable, with forms such as "innsufferable", "insfuferable", and "inssufferable". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Late Middle English insufferable (“unbearably painful, intolerable”), and then either: * from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + sufferable, souffrable (“bearable, endurable, tolerable; allowable, permissible; able to or willing to bear hardship; forbearing,… The correct English form is insufferable, spelled I-N-S-U-F-F-E-R-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Not sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure; intolerable, unbearable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how insufferable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
No, his good Meen, his Youth, and blooming Face / Tempt him to think, that vvith a better grace / Himſelf might ſit, and thou ſupply his place. / Behold there yet remains, vvhich muſt be born, / Proud Servants more inſufferable Scorn.
She is sensible that a vain person is the most insufferable creature living in a well-bred assembly.
Etymology
From Late Middle English insufferable (“unbearably painful, intolerable”), and then either: * from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + sufferable, souffrable (“bearable, endurable, tolerable; allowable, permissible; able to or willing to bear hardship; forbearing, long-suffering; calm, self-restrained, slow to anger; capable of suffering”) (from Anglo-Norman sufferable, souffrable, and Old French souffrable, suffrable (“sufferable, tolerable”)); or * from Old French insouffrable (“which cannot be endured or suffered; something insufferable or unendurable”) (now dialectal), from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + souffrable, suffrable. From Old French souffrable, suffrable are derived from Medieval Latin sufferābilis, from Latin sufferre + -ābilis (suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’); while sufferre is the present active infinitive of sufferō, subferō (“to bear or carry under; to bear, endure, suffer, undergo”), from sub- (prefix meaning ‘below, under’) + ferō (“to bear, carry; to endure, suffer, tolerate”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”)). The English word is analysable as in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + sufferable.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- innsufferable
- insfuferable
- inssufferable
- insufefrable
- insuferable
- insuffearble
- insufferabble
- insufferabel
- insufferablle
- insufferalbe
- insufferbale
- insufferible
- insufferrable
- insuffreable
- inusfferable
- isnufferable
- nisufferable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of insufferable - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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