into
in·to/ˈɪn.tu/preposition
into is spelled I-N-T-O, 2 syllables: in·to. The wrong spelling people search most is inot: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 33 of all searches for the word. Into is a preposition meaning “To or towards the inside of”.
How many letters and syllables are in into?
| Letters | 4: I-N-T-O |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: in·to |
| In writing | 1,288 times per million words; the 83rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, inot, about 50 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell into?
Into is spelled I-N-T-O. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 33 of the searches for into in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is into?
Into appears 1,288 times per million words in written English, the 83rd 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 into?
- UK /ˈɪn.tuː/
- /ˈɪn.tiː/
- US /ˈɪn.tu/
Into has 2 syllables, split in·to in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-into.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with into?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as into (/ɪntu/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tion, oint.
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 into
- intiv
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does into mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
preposition
- 1
To or towards the inside of.
Mary danced into the house.
- 2
To or towards the region of.
We left the house and walked into the street.
- 3
To the condition or state.
They lulled us into thinking we still had time.
- 4
Against, especially with force or violence.
The car crashed into the tree.
- 5
Indicates transition into another form or substance.
I carved the piece of driftwood into a sculpture of a whale.
- 6
Indicates division or the creation of subgroups or sections.
A cow's stomach is divided into four chambers.
- 7
After the start of.
About 20 minutes into the flight, the pilot reported a fire on board.
- 8
colloquialInterested in or attracted to.
She's really heavily into Shakespeare right now.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Into in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | dans, à l'intérieur de, au milieu de, parmi , en |
| German | in , gen , gegen, in (if deformable) |
| Portuguese | para dentro de , até , em , a fim |
| Spanish | adentro de, para dentro de , vacilarle, bacilarle, fliparle , en |
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 into come from?
From Middle English in-to, from Old English intō, equivalent to in + to. Cognate with Scots intae.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).