misalignment
"misalignment" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“misalignment” is uncommon English (frequency #58,201 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,201
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - the state, or an instance, of being misaligned
Corpus desk
Index EN-misalignment · misalignment · English
misalignment · rank #58,201 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,201
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH milla
Nearest frequency peer: milla (-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 “misalignment”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Meo
Meo
41,806 corpus weight
- midcentury
midcentury
41,803 corpus weight
- milla
milla
41,801 corpus weight
- misalignment
misalignment
41,800 corpus weight
- misheard
misheard
41,799 corpus weight
- mochi
mochi
41,795 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “misalignment” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | misalignment |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #58,201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “misalignment” in English
Rare enough to double-check
misalignment is uncommon English at frequency #58,201 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "the state, or an instance, of being misaligned".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for misalignment, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From mis- + alignment. The correct English form is misalignment, spelled M-I-S-A-L-I-G-N-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1the state, or an instance, of being misaligned
Etymology
From mis- + alignment.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).