alright

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The English entry for alright is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɔːlˈɹaɪt/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,464 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Alternative form of all right; satisfactory; okay; in acceptable order.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for alright, with forms such as "alirght", "allright", and "alrgiht". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "alrighty", "aight", "alight", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Univerbation of all + right. Compare Old English eallriht (“all-right, just, exactly”) (from eall + riht), equivalent to al- (“all”) + right. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is alright, spelled A-L-R-I-G-H-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.