breach of the peace
"breach-of-the-peace" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“breach of the peace” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The legal offense of engaging in public behavior which is violent, rowdy, or disruptive.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | breach of the peace |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “breach of the peace” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
breach of the peace is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
breach of the peace doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 breach of the peace, spelled B-R-E-A-C-H- -O-F- -T-H-E- -P-E-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1The legal offense of engaging in public behavior which is violent, rowdy, or disruptive.
- 2Any public disturbance or disorderly behavior.
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.
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Using “breach of the peace”
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- The one correct English spelling is B-R-E-A-C-H- -O-F- -T-H-E- -P-E-A-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.