inconvenience
in·con·ve·nience/ɪnkənˈvinjəns/noun, verb
inconvenience is spelled I-N-C-O-N-V-E-N-I-E-N-C-E, 4 syllables: in·con·ve·nience. The wrong spelling people search most is unconvenience: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 1,111 of all searches for the word. Inconvenience is a noun meaning “The quality of being inconvenient”. The plural of inconvenience is inconveniences.
How many letters and syllables are in inconvenience?
| Letters | 13: I-N-C-O-N-V-E-N-I-E-N-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: in·con·ve·nience |
| In writing | 4.9 times per million words; the 11,373rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, unconvenience, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell inconvenience?
Inconvenience is spelled I-N-C-O-N-V-E-N-I-E-N-C-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 1,053 of the searches for inconvenience in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is inconvenience?
Inconvenience appears 4.9 times per million words in written English, the 11,373rd 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).
How do you pronounce inconvenience?
- UK /ɪnkənˈviːnɪəns/
- UK /ɪŋk-/
- US /ɪnkənˈvinjəns/
Inconvenience has 4 syllables, split in·con·ve·nience in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-inconvenience.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with inconvenience?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as inconvenience from its last stressed vowel (/injəns/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of inconvenience
- inconveniences plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- inconveniencing participle, present
- inconvenienced participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does inconvenience mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The quality of being inconvenient.
- 2
Something that is not convenient, something that bothers.
verb
- 1
To bother; to discomfort.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Inconvenience in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | dérangement, désagrément |
| German | Unannehmlichkeit , lästig sein, stören, Unannehmlichkeiten bereiten |
| Portuguese | inconveniência, incómodo, incômodo , incomodar, perturbar, importunar |
| Spanish | inconveniencia , importunar, ser(le) inconveniente / disconveniente |
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 inconvenience come from?
From Middle English inconvenience, from Old French inconvenience (“misfortune, calamity, impropriety”) (compare French inconvenance (“impropriety”) and inconvénient (“inconvenience”)), from Late Latin inconvenientia (“inconsistency, incongruity”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).