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inundated

adjective, verb

inundated is spelled I-N-U-N-D-A-T-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is innundated: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 56 of all searches for the word. Inundated is an adjective meaning “flooded”.

How many letters and syllables are in inundated?

Letters9: I-N-U-N-D-A-T-E-D
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.1 times per million words; the 27,820th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, innundated, about 70 Bing searches a month (all of them)

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); 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).

How do you spell inundated?

Inundated is spelled I-N-U-N-D-A-T-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 56 of the searches for inundated in either form.

inundatedthe right spelling3,830 searches a month
innundatedan extra n70 searches a month

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 inundated?

Inundated appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,820th 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 inundated?

    Inundated has 4 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).

    What does inundated mean?

    The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

    adjective

    1. 1

      flooded

    verb

    1. 1

      simple past and past participle of inundate (a form of inundate)

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

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