authorities
"authorities" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“authorities” has 15 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #2,326. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,326
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The bodies that have political or administrative power and control in a particular sphere.
Corpus desk
Index EN-authorities · authorities · English
authorities · rank #2,326 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,326
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH ah
Nearest frequency peer: ah (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “authorities”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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truck
97,678 corpus weight
- votes
votes
97,677 corpus weight
- ah
ah
97,676 corpus weight
- authorities
authorities
97,675 corpus weight
- basically
basically
97,674 corpus weight
- besides
besides
97,673 corpus weight
What this shows “authorities” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | authorities |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #2,326 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “authorities”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around authorities, anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,326 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for authorities, with forms such as "atuhorities", "auhtorities", and "authhorities". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is authorities, spelled A-U-T-H-O-R-I-T-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1The bodies that have political or administrative power and control in a particular sphere.
- 2The bodies that enforce law and order or provide a public service.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how authorities appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
ICE arrested Old Orchard Beach Police Department reserve Officer Jon Luke Evans, of Jamaica, on July 25, as part of the agency’s effort to step up immigration enforcement. Officials with the town and police department have said federal authorities previously told them Evans was legally authorized to work in the U.S.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atuhorities
- auhtorities
- authhorities
- authoirties
- authoriites
- authoriteis
- authoritiess
- authoritise
- authoritties
- authorrities
- authortiies
- authroities
- autohrities
- autthorities
- uathorities
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of authorities - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "authorities", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).