Inconvenence or inconvenience?
Did you mean inconvenience? Here's the right spelling and how to remember it.
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inconvenence
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inconvenience
Correct spelling: inconvenience. Misspelling: inconvenence.
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Memory tip
Built on convenient: con-VEN-ience, with no I before the E in "ven".
Why people write “inconvenence”
The misspelling “inconvenence” is only one letter off: it leaves out the I.
Spell-checkers catch the mistake in a document, but not in a handwritten note, a text message or a word game. Writing the word out a few times while saying the tricky part aloud is the quickest way to make inconvenience automatic.
What does “inconvenience” mean?
inconvenience noun
- an inconvenient discomfort
Synonyms:incommodiousness
- a difficulty that causes anxiety
Synonyms:troublesomenessworriment
- the quality of not being useful or convenient
inconvenience verb
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
“Sorry to trouble you, but...”
Synonyms:troubledisobligediscommodeincommode
Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Full dictionary entry
“Inconvenience” in a sentence
- We apologize for any inconvenience.
- Sorry to trouble you, but....
Is “inconvenience” a playable word?
20 points in Scrabble · 27 in Words With Friends
- Scrabble (US)
- Scrabble (UK)
- Words With Friends
“inconvenence” is not accepted in any of these games. See every word you can make from INCONVENIENCE.