misstatement
"misstatement" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“misstatement” is uncommon English (frequency #96,235 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,235
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Something stated wrongly; a (usually unintentionally) incorrect statement.
Corpus desk
Index EN-misstatement · misstatement · English
misstatement · rank #96,235 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,235
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH minoxidil
Nearest frequency peer: minoxidil (-2 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 “misstatement”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- microcode
microcode
3,772 corpus weight
- minim
minim
3,770 corpus weight
- Minkoff
Minkoff
3,769 corpus weight
- minoxidil
minoxidil
3,768 corpus weight
- misstatement
misstatement
3,766 corpus weight
- moire
moire
3,759 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “misstatement” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | misstatement |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #96,235 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “misstatement” in English
Rare enough to double-check
misstatement is uncommon English at frequency #96,235 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Something stated wrongly; a (usually unintentionally) incorrect statement.".
Zero misspellings are on record for misstatement in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From mis- + statement. The correct English form is misstatement, spelled M-I-S-S-T-A-T-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Something stated wrongly; a (usually unintentionally) incorrect statement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how misstatement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Again we read at page 174: “Instead of the Universal Roman Catholic Church there existed after 1650 the National Catholic Churches of Spain, France, Austria, Poland, etc. more subject to the Royal supremacy than to the Papal, not, however, so completely as in England.” This is obviously an exaggeration. There never existed in the countries mentioned, leas…
his gubernatorial campaign, noteworthy mostly for his seemingly daily racist and otherwise offensive misstatements
Etymology
From mis- + statement.
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).