infelicity
"infelicity" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“infelicity” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The condition of being infelicitous.
Corpus desk
Index EN-infelicity · infelicity · English
infelicity · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 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 | infelicity |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “infelicity” in English
Rare enough to double-check
infelicity is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for infelicity in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From in- + felicity, from Latin infelicitas. The correct English form is infelicity, spelled I-N-F-E-L-I-C-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1The condition of being infelicitous.
- 2Something that is infelicitous or inappropriate
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how infelicity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The infelicity of this shift of subject only becomes apparent, again retrospectively, in line eight, directly after the reader's encounter with yet another inscrutable Spenserism […]
Returning to our own epistemic situation, we do not know the sense in which quantum mechanics and relativity will be taken to be approximately true after their descriptive infelicities are addressed.
Etymology
From in- + felicity, from Latin infelicitas.
Antonyms
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.