inopportune
"inopportune" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“inopportune” is uncommon English (frequency #59,468 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,468
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unsuitable for some particular purpose.
Corpus desk
Index EN-inopportune · inopportune · English
inopportune · rank #59,468 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,468
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH ingle
Nearest frequency peer: ingle (-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 “inopportune”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- incumbency
incumbency
40,537 corpus weight
- inelastic
inelastic
40,535 corpus weight
- ingle
ingle
40,534 corpus weight
- inopportune
inopportune
40,533 corpus weight
- IoW
IoW
40,530 corpus weight
- Jabez
Jabez
40,529 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “inopportune” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inopportune |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #59,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “inopportune” in English
Rare enough to double-check
inopportune is uncommon English at frequency #59,468 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for inopportune, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin inopportūnus. By surface analysis, in- + opportune. The correct English form is inopportune, spelled I-N-O-P-P-O-R-T-U-N-E.
Definition
- 1Unsuitable for some particular purpose.
- 2Happening/occurring at an inconvenient or inappropriate time.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inopportune appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
That was a most inopportune spot for a picnic.
"It appears I come at an inopportune time, madam," said he, "when my friend, Mr. Rochester, is from home; but I arrive from a very long journey, and I think I may presume so far on old and intimate acquaintance as to install myself here till he returns."
Etymology
From Latin inopportūnus. By surface analysis, in- + opportune.
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).