scoundrelry
"scoundrelry" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“scoundrelry” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Villainy, evildoing; acts of villainy or evildoing
Corpus desk
Index EN-scoundrelry · scoundrelry · English
scoundrelry · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | scoundrelry |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “scoundrelry” in English
Rare enough to double-check
scoundrelry is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for scoundrelry, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From scoundrel + -ry; noted in 1859. The correct English form is scoundrelry, spelled S-C-O-U-N-D-R-E-L-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Villainy, evildoing; acts of villainy or evildoing
- 2Scoundrels in general; a group of scoundrels
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scoundrelry appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1894. Henry Lazarus. The English revolution of the twentieth century: a prospective history. T. F. Unwin. page 253. Such was Jubilee justice — capped by the liberty of any number of Society thieves to rob the poor of their earnings by means of endless quack nostrums and "Building" or other "Society" scoundrelries.
1999. Dab Rebellato. 1956 and all that: the making of modern British drama. Psychology Press. page 94. The designer Such is the disdain now shown for theatre design in the period before Look Back in Anger, that it is automatic to imagine it as a design era of tyrannical and monstrous scoundrelry.
Etymology
From scoundrel + -ry; noted in 1859.
Synonyms
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.