inadvisable
"inadvisable" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“inadvisable” is uncommon English (frequency #75,069 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,069
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unwise; not recommended; not prudent; not to be advised.
Corpus desk
Index EN-inadvisable · inadvisable · English
inadvisable · rank #75,069 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,069
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH inaccessibili…
Nearest frequency peer: inaccessibility (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “inadvisable”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- illegitimacy
illegitimacy
24,936 corpus weight
- impracticab…
impracticable
24,934 corpus weight
- inaccessibi…
inaccessibility
24,933 corpus weight
- inadvisable
inadvisable
24,932 corpus weight
- incongruity
incongruity
24,931 corpus weight
- indubitably
indubitably
24,930 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “inadvisable” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inadvisable |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #75,069 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “inadvisable” in English
Rare enough to double-check
inadvisable is uncommon English at frequency #75,069 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Unwise; not recommended; not prudent; not to be advised.".
Zero misspellings are on record for inadvisable in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From in- + advisable. The correct English form is inadvisable, spelled I-N-A-D-V-I-S-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Unwise; not recommended; not prudent; not to be advised.
Etymology
From in- + advisable.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).