Inconvienience or inconvenience?
Did you mean inconvenience? Here's the right spelling and how to remember it.
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inconvenience
Correct spelling: inconvenience. Misspelling: inconvienience.
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Memory tip
Built on convenient: con-VEN-ience, with no I before the E in "ven".
Why people write “inconvienience”
The misspelling “inconvienience” is only one letter off: it adds an extra vowel, 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.
Other misspellings of “inconvenience”
People also write “inconvenence”. Here is where each one goes wrong.
“inconvenence”
Correct spelling: inconvenience. Misspelling: inconvenence.
letters the misspelling gets wrong or leaves out letters that shouldn't be there
The misspelling “inconvenence” is only one letter off: it leaves out the I.
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
“inconvienience” is not accepted in any of these games. See every word you can make from INCONVENIENCE.