congratulations

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for congratulations is 15 letters long, classified as anintj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,610 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Expressing praise and approval, expressing approbation.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 23 documented wrong-spelling variants for congratulations, with forms such as "ccongratulations", "cnogratulations", and "cognratulations". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "congratulating", "congratulation", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is congratulations, spelled C-O-N-G-R-A-T-U-L-A-T-I-O-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.