jeopardous

adj

"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.

Key facts for jeopardous
PropertyValue
Headwordjeopardous
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “jeopardous” in English

jeopardousfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Marked by jeopardy; dangerous or perilous

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how jeopardous appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. “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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jeopardous"?
"jeopardous" is spelled J-E-O-P-A-R-D-O-U-S.
What does "jeopardous" mean?
As an adjective, "jeopardous" means: Marked by jeopardy; dangerous or perilous
What language does "jeopardous" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list