mend one's pace
"mend-one-s-pace" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mend one's pace” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To speed up, travel faster; also, to adjust one's speed to match that of a companion.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mend-one-s-pace · mend one's pace · English
mend one's pace · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" 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 | mend one's pace |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mend one's pace” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mend one's pace is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To speed up, travel faster; also, to adjust one's speed to match that of a companion.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mend one's pace in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is mend one's pace, spelled M-E-N-D- -O-N-E-'-S- -P-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1To speed up, travel faster; also, to adjust one's speed to match that of a companion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mend one's pace appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The hurt nigger moaned feebly somewhere near by, and then fetched a deep sigh that made me mend my pace away from there.
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.