# inconvenience

> English word · Noun · IPA /ɪnkənˈviːnɪəns/ · frequency rank #11,397

## Definitions
1. The quality of being inconvenient.
2. Something that is not convenient, something that bothers.

## Etymology
From Middle English inconvenience, from Old French inconvenience (“misfortune, calamity, impropriety”) (compare French inconvenance (“impropriety”) and inconvénient (“inconvenience”)), from Late Latin inconvenientia (“inconsistency, incongruity”).

## Easily confused with
- **inconvenient** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/inconvenience-vs-inconvenient)

## Common misspellings (20)
`icnonvenience`, `incconvenience`, `incnovenience`, `inconevnience`, `inconnvenience`, `inconveinence`, `inconveneince`, `inconveniance`, `inconveniecne`, `inconveniencce`, `inconvenienec`, `inconveniennce`, `inconveninece`, `inconvennience`, `inconvneience`, `inconvvenience`, `incovnenience`, `innconvenience`, `inocnvenience`, `niconvenience`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/inconvenience