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inconsideration

noun

inconsideration is spelled I-N-C-O-N-S-I-D-E-R-A-T-I-O-N: 15 letters. It appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, inconsideration means “Lack of due consideration; inattention to consequences, thoughtlessness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of inconsideration is inconsiderations.

How many letters and syllables are in inconsideration?

Letters15: I-N-C-O-N-S-I-D-E-R-A-T-I-O-N
In writingabout once in every 60 million words; the 243,301st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is inconsideration?

Inconsideration appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of inconsideration

  • inconsiderations plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does inconsideration mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Lack of due consideration; inattention to consequences, thoughtlessness.

    new trained Souldiers, and such as are but novices in the trade, doe often headlong, and hand over head cast themselves into dangers, with more inconsideration, than afterward when they have seene and endured the first shocke, and are bette

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Inconsideration in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Spanishinconsideración, desconsideración

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does inconsideration come from?

Borrowed from Middle French inconsideration and its source, Latin incōnsiderātiōnem.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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