Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

misfeature

/ˌmɪsˈfiː.t͡ʃɚ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mis-fea-ture
IPA: /ˌmɪsˈfiː.t͡ʃɚ/

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An undesirable or incorrect feature.

Example Sentences

"He hath his Winter too of pale Misfeature, / Or else he would forego his mortal nature."
"This may not appear to be a critical misfeature, and in fact I have on occasion come to rely upon this unintentional archive of data to recover the data[…]"
"Most recent research on modern open source codebases indicate that array covariance is extremely rarely used and is almost certainly a language misfeature."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- English feature English misfeature From mis- + feature.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˌmɪsˈfiː.t͡ʃɚ/
British English: /ˌmɪsˈfiː.tjə(ɹ)/

Inflected Forms

misfeatures (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce misfeature?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˌmɪsˈfiː.t͡ʃɚ/.
What does misfeature mean?: An undesirable or incorrect feature.
Where does misfeature come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- English feature English misfeature From mis- + feature.

How to pronounce misfeature

Open the pronunciation page — Open the Speakur entry for “misfeature”.
Read the phonetic spelling — Read the IPA spelling (/ˌmɪsˈfiː.t͡ʃɚ/) so you know which sounds to aim for.
Play the audio — Click Play to hear reference audio for “misfeature”.
Repeat and practice — Say “misfeature” aloud, matching stress and vowels until it feels natural.