oathbreach
/ˈoʊθbɹiːt͡ʃ/
"oathbreach" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“oathbreach” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Breach or breaking of an oath; perjury.
Corpus desk
Index EN-oathbreach · oathbreach · English
oathbreach · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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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 | oathbreach |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈoʊθbɹiːt͡ʃ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “oathbreach” in English
Rare enough to double-check
oathbreach is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈoʊθbɹiːt͡ʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Breach or breaking of an oath; perjury.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for oathbreach in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English othbreche, from Old English āþbriċe, āþbryċe (“the breaking of an oath, perjury”), equivalent to oath + breach. Compare West Frisian eedbrek (“perjury”), Dutch eedbreuk (“breach of an oath”), German Low German Eedbröök (“the breach of an… The correct English form is oathbreach, spelled O-A-T-H-B-R-E-A-C-H.
Definition
- 1Breach or breaking of an oath; perjury.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how oathbreach appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
To this list of deadly crimes, naming house-breaking, arson or fire-raising, open theft (ran), and clear murder and treason to one's lord, the Northmen seem to have added unnatural crime (arg-scap), witchcraft, blasphemy, and oath-breach, [...]
Yet he calls him also a son of Constantine of Dunmonia, which is odd, seeing that the only direct reference of this primitive and melancholy father of British history to the West of England is the declaration with regard to oath-breach — [...]
Etymology
From Middle English othbreche, from Old English āþbriċe, āþbryċe (“the breaking of an oath, perjury”), equivalent to oath + breach. Compare West Frisian eedbrek (“perjury”), Dutch eedbreuk (“breach of an oath”), German Low German Eedbröök (“the breach of an oath”), German Eidbruch (“the breaking of an oath”).
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.