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misgovernance

noun

misgovernance is spelled M-I-S-G-O-V-E-R-N-A-N-C-E: 13 letters. It appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, misgovernance means “Bad governance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of misgovernance is misgovernances.

How many letters and syllables are in misgovernance?

Letters13: M-I-S-G-O-V-E-R-N-A-N-C-E
In writingabout once in every 87 million words; the 297,763rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is misgovernance?

Misgovernance appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd 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).

Forms of misgovernance

  • misgovernances plural
  • misgouvernance
  • misgouvernaunce
  • misgovernaunce

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

What does misgovernance mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Bad governance.

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

Where does misgovernance come from?

From mis- + governance.

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

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