not a moment too soon
"not-a-moment-too-soon" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“not a moment too soon” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of not a minute too soon.
Corpus desk
Index EN-not-a-moment-too-soon · not a moment too soon · English
not a moment too soon · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 21 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" 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 | not a moment too soon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “not a moment too soon” in English
Rare enough to double-check
not a moment too soon is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of not a minute too soon.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for not a moment too soon, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is not a moment too soon, spelled N-O-T- -A- -M-O-M-E-N-T- -T-O-O- -S-O-O-N.
Definition
- 1Synonym of not a minute too soon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how not a moment too soon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There's impatience too: He writes that Morrison "expired, bloated and burnt out, in a bathtub in Paris at 27, not a moment too soon. His life was a bad influence."
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.