amongst

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The English entry for amongst is 7 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /əˈmʌŋst/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,206 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects. See usage note at amidst.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for amongst, with forms such as "ammongst", "amnogst", and "amognst". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "angst", "among", "agonist", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From amongs + -t (excrescent), from among + -s (genitive). By surface analysis, among + -st (excrescent). Root among from Old English ongemang, from on (“in”) + gemang (“assemblage, mingling”). 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 amongst, spelled A-M-O-N-G-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.