conciliatory
/kənˈsɪl.i.əˌtɔɹ.i/
"conciliatory" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“conciliatory” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #38,786 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #38,786
- frequency rank, English
- 12
- letters
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conciliatory |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /kənˈsɪl.i.əˌtɔɹ.i/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #38,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “conciliatory” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for conciliatory is 12 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kənˈsɪl.i.əˌtɔɹ.i/. Corpus data places it at rank #38,786 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for conciliatory, with forms such as "cconciliatory", "cnociliatory", and "cocniliatory". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is conciliatory, spelled C-O-N-C-I-L-I-A-T-O-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconciliatory,cnociliatory,cocniliatory,concciliatory,conciilatory,concilaitory,conciliaotry,conciliatorry,conciliatoryy,conciliatoyr,conciliatroy,conciliattory,concilitaory,concilliatory,concliiatory,conicliatory,connciliatory,ocnciliatory
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of conciliatory - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “conciliatory”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-N-C-I-L-I-A-T-O-R-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /kənˈsɪl.i.əˌtɔɹ.i/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.