talk into
"talk-into" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“talk into” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To convince (someone) by talking and suggesting.
Corpus desk
Index EN-talk-into · talk into · English
talk into · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | talk into |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “talk into” in English
Rare enough to double-check
talk into is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To convince (someone) by talking and suggesting.".
No misspelling variants are generated for talk into in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is talk into, spelled T-A-L-K- -I-N-T-O.
Definition
- 1To convince (someone) by talking and suggesting.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how talk into appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
At the beginning, I wasn't keen on working the weekend shift, but my boss talked me into it.
She talked him into making the investment.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.