jeopardy
/ˈd͡ʒɛpɚdi/noun
jeopardy is spelled J-E-O-P-A-R-D-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is jeapardy: about 270 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 92 of all searches for the word. Jeopardy is a noun meaning “Danger of failure, harm, or loss”. The plural of jeopardy is jeopardies.
How many letters and syllables are in jeopardy?
| Letters | 8: J-E-O-P-A-R-D-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.3 times per million words; the 14,509th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, jeapardy, about 270 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell jeopardy?
Jeopardy is spelled J-E-O-P-A-R-D-Y. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 56 of the searches for jeopardy in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is jeopardy?
Jeopardy appears 3.3 times per million words in written English, the 14,509th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce jeopardy?
- UK /ˈd͡ʒɛpədi/
- US /ˈd͡ʒɛpɚdi/
- Australia /ˈd͡ʒepədi/
Jeopardy has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-I_learned_some_phrases-jeopardy.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of jeopardy
- jeopardies plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- jeopardying participle, present
- jeopardied participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does jeopardy mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Danger of failure, harm, or loss.
The poor condition of the vehicle put its occupants in constant jeopardy.
verb
- 1
archaicTo jeopardize; to endanger.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Jeopardy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense danger of failure, harm, or loss:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does jeopardy come from?
From Middle English jupartie, jeupartie (“even chance”), from Anglo-Norman giu parti and Middle French jeu parti (“a divided game, i.e. an even game, an even chance”), from Medieval Latin iocus partītus (“an even chance, an alternative”), from Latin iocus (“jest, play, game”) + partītus, perfect passive participle of partiō (“divide”); see joke and party.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).