inadvertence

Other forms of inadvertence

plural

inadvertences·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about inadvertence

What does inadvertence mean?

inadvertence means "an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inadvertence?

inadvertence has 4 syllables: in-ad-ver-tence. The stress falls on "ver". In IPA it is /ˌɪnədˈvɝtəns/.

What is another word for inadvertence?

Close synonyms include oversight, unmindfulness, heedlessness, inadvertency. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is inadvertence a common word?

inadvertence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.