misprint
/ˈmɪspɹɪnt/
"misprint" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“misprint” is uncommon English (frequency #71,704 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,704
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An accidental mistake in print.
Corpus desk
Index EN-misprint · misprint · English
misprint · rank #71,704 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,704
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mindedly
Nearest frequency peer: mindedly (-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 “misprint”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- microfluidic
microfluidic
28,301 corpus weight
- Milgram
Milgram
28,299 corpus weight
- mindedly
mindedly
28,298 corpus weight
- misprint
misprint
28,297 corpus weight
- Mkhitaryan
Mkhitaryan
28,295 corpus weight
- modeler
modeler
28,294 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “misprint” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | misprint |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmɪspɹɪnt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,704 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “misprint” in English
Rare enough to double-check
misprint is uncommon English at frequency #71,704 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈmɪspɹɪnt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An accidental mistake in print.".
misprint has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From mis- + print. The correct English form is misprint, spelled M-I-S-P-R-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1An accidental mistake in print.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how misprint appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonyms: typo; lapsus calami, lapsus plumæ
There is a misprint in the first print run: On page 42 where the character yells, "You're going to catch a cod if you spend all night fishing", the dialogue was meant to say, "You're going to catch a cold if you spend all night fishing."
Etymology
From mis- + print.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).