misplease

verb

"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

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Key facts for misplease
PropertyValue
Headwordmisplease
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “misplease” in English

mispleaseranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    To fail in pleasing; displease.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how misplease appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. "[...] 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "misplease"?
"misplease" is spelled M-I-S-P-L-E-A-S-E.
What does "misplease" mean?
As a verb, "misplease" means: To fail in pleasing; displease.
What is the origin of the word "misplease"?
From Middle English misplesen, equivalent to mis- + please. Compare Old French mesplaire. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list