misplease
"misplease" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“misplease” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To fail in pleasing; displease.
Corpus desk
Index EN-misplease · misplease · English
misplease · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | misplease |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “misplease” in English
Rare enough to double-check
misplease is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To fail in pleasing; displease.".
No misspelling variants are generated for misplease in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English misplesen, equivalent to mis- + please. Compare Old French mesplaire. The correct English form is misplease, spelled M-I-S-P-L-E-A-S-E.
Definition
- 1To fail in pleasing; displease.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how misplease appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oh, i [sic] have one great Fear to misplease Him, and I pray He give me more of that Fear each Day, He my heavenly Father, not the Fear like Olga to the Knout, but to fear I misplease Him my Father, and make me not worthy of His Love.
"[...] Yet let this make me as sorry as it will, still I must on that account above all see how everything looks before God and in itself, how it pleases or mispleases him."
Etymology
From Middle English misplesen, equivalent to mis- + please. Compare Old French mesplaire.
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.