jeopardised
"jeopardised" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“jeopardised” is uncommon English (frequency #89,503 among 4,872 “J” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,503
- frequency rank, English
- 4,872
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of jeopardise
Corpus desk
Index EN-jeopardised · jeopardised · English
jeopardised · rank #89,503 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,503
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,872
- PHOTO-FINISH jetson
Nearest frequency peer: jetson (+2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “jeopardised”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Jauregui
Jauregui
10,502 corpus weight
- Jayce
Jayce
10,501 corpus weight
- jeopardised
jeopardised
10,498 corpus weight
- jetson
jetson
10,496 corpus weight
- JSE
JSE
10,494 corpus weight
- Kahl
Kahl
10,493 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “jeopardised” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeopardised |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #89,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jeopardised” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
jeopardised is uncommon English at frequency #89,503 among 4,872 “J” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of jeopardise".
jeopardised has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is jeopardised, spelled J-E-O-P-A-R-D-I-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of jeopardise
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "jeopardised", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.