in any case
"in-any-case" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“in any case” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a prep_phrase. 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) - Whatever be the case; regardless.
Corpus desk
Index EN-in-any-case · in any case · English
in any case · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" 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 | in any case |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Prep_phrase |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “in any case” in English
Rare enough to double-check
in any case is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aprep_phrase. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for in any case in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is in any case, spelled I-N- -A-N-Y- -C-A-S-E.
Definition
- 1Whatever be the case; regardless.
- 2Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, any, case.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how in any case appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Who knows how many more inches of snow will fall tonight, but in any case, we can expect to be doing a lot of shoveling tomorrow.
Later Martin said, "If we ever have another baby girl, I'm going to give her a simple name like Mary Jane." When we did have another daughter, we called her Bernice Albertine, after her two grandmothers. Not quite Mary Jane, but at least named for members of the family. In any case, she is known as Bunny,
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.