take one's time
"take-one-s-time" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“take one's time” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To go about something slowly and carefully or at one's own pace.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | take one's time |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “take one's time” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
take one's time is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for take one's time, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is take one's time, spelled T-A-K-E- -O-N-E-'-S- -T-I-M-E.
Definition
- 1To go about something slowly and carefully or at one's own pace.
- 2To take more time to do something than is considered acceptable.
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.
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Using “take one's time”
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- The one correct English spelling is T-A-K-E- -O-N-E-'-S- -T-I-M-E - 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.