bad manners
"bad-manners" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bad manners” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The treatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way, or incorrect behaviour in public.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bad-manners · bad manners · English
bad manners · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" 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 | bad manners |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bad manners” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bad manners is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The treatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way, or incorrect behaviour in public.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bad manners, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is bad manners, spelled B-A-D- -M-A-N-N-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1The treatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way, or incorrect behaviour in public.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bad manners appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In some cultures, it is considered to be bad manners to talk with your mouth full.
We walked out into the sunlight and rode from the church to Rose Hills Memorial Park. My mother was buried in the family plot, alongside my father, my brothers Arthur and Harold, her mother and father, and her sister Elizabeth, who died of cancer. Only one reporter had the bad manners to stick a microphone in my face and ask how I felt. I just walked past…
This word in other languages
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.