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midsentence

adjective, adverb, noun

midsentence is an adjective meaning “Occurring in the middle of a sentence” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-I-D-S-E-N-T-E-N-C-E, and it appears about once in every 68 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does midsentence mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Occurring in the middle of a sentence.

adverb

  1. 1

    In the middle of a sentence.

noun

  1. 1

    The middle of a sentence.

    I was cut off in mid-sentence

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of midsentence

  • mid-sentence

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is midsentence?

Midsentence appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th 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).

Where does midsentence come from?

From mid- + sentence.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).