misadventure
"misadventure" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“misadventure” is uncommon English (frequency #62,326 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,326
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An accidental mishap or misfortune.
Corpus desk
Index EN-misadventure · misadventure · English
misadventure · rank #62,326 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,326
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH minuet
Nearest frequency peer: minuet (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “misadventure”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- methylene
methylene
37,683 corpus weight
- minaret
minaret
37,679 corpus weight
- minter
minter
37,677 corpus weight
- minuet
minuet
37,676 corpus weight
- misadventure
misadventure
37,675 corpus weight
- Mishima
Mishima
37,674 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “misadventure” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | misadventure |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #62,326 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “misadventure” in English
Rare enough to double-check
misadventure is uncommon English at frequency #62,326 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An accidental mishap or misfortune.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for misadventure, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English misaventure, from Old French mesaventure, equivalent to mis- + adventure. The correct English form is misadventure, spelled M-I-S-A-D-V-E-N-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1An accidental mishap or misfortune.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how misadventure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen's case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of the same somebody else's thorns in addition to his own.
There were, however, 34 deaths among passengers in movement accidents, due mainly to misadventure and carelessness when entering and leaving trains in motion, falling off platforms and out of carriages, and opening and closing carriage doors.
Etymology
From Middle English misaventure, from Old French mesaventure, equivalent to mis- + adventure.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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