cavity

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The English entry for cavity is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkæv.ɪt.i/. Corpus data places it at rank #12,740 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cavity, with forms such as "acvity", "caivty", and "cavitty". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "city", "charity", "clarity", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle French cavité or Late Latin cavitās, from cav(i) (“hollow, excavated, concave”) + -tās (“-ity”, nominal suffix). First attested in the Mid-16th c. 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 cavity, spelled C-A-V-I-T-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.