on accident
"on-accident" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“on accident” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Accidentally; not intentionally; because of error, misfortune, or lack of caution.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | on accident |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “on accident” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
on accident is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Accidentally; not intentionally; because of error, misfortune, or lack of caution.".
Zero misspellings are on record for on accident in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is on accident, spelled O-N- -A-C-C-I-D-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Accidentally; not intentionally; because of error, misfortune, or lack of caution.
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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.
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Using “on accident”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is O-N- -A-C-C-I-D-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.