jeopardous
"jeopardous" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“jeopardous” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. 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) - Marked by jeopardy; dangerous or perilous
Corpus desk
Index EN-jeopardous · jeopardous · English
jeopardous · 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 "J" 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 | jeopardous |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “jeopardous” in English
Rare enough to double-check
jeopardous is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Marked by jeopardy; dangerous or perilous".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for jeopardous, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is jeopardous, spelled J-E-O-P-A-R-D-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Marked by jeopardy; dangerous or perilous
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how jeopardous appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“I cast Jafar's Jeopardous Journey!”
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.