---
id: inflect
version: "7.5.0"
license: unclear
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# inflect — Correctly generate plurals, singular nouns, ordinals, indefinite articles

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install inflect
uv add inflect
poetry add inflect

## Description

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NAME
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inflect.py - Accurately generate plurals, singular nouns, ordinals, indefinite articles, and word-based representations of numbers. This functionality is limited to English.

SYNOPSIS
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.. code-block:: python
    
    >>>...

## AI interpretation — verify before relying

Inflect generates correct English plurals, singulars, ordinals, indefinite articles, and word-based number representations. It handles pluralization of nouns, verbs, and adjectives, plus classical grammar variants.

Verdict: Inflect is a mature, actively maintained library with no known vulnerabilities, low install friction, and permissive licensing. It's well-suited for English text generation and NLP tasks requiring accurate morphological inflection.

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