congratulations
/kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/
"congratulations" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“congratulations” has 23 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #3,610. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,610
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 23
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Expressing praise and approval, expressing approbation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-congratulations · congratulations · English
congratulations · rank #3,610 · 23 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,610
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 23 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH confirm
Nearest frequency peer: confirm (-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 “congratulations”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Columbia
Columbia
96,394 corpus weight
- conclusion
conclusion
96,393 corpus weight
- confirm
confirm
96,392 corpus weight
- congratulat…
congratulations
96,391 corpus weight
- contracts
contracts
96,390 corpus weight
- convinced
convinced
96,389 corpus weight
What this shows “congratulations” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | congratulations |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #3,610 |
| Misspellings tracked | 23 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “congratulations”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 23 spelling variants around congratulations (IPA /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/), aninterjection. Corpus frequency is #3,610 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Expressing praise and approval, expressing approbation.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 23 likely wrong-spelling variants for congratulations, with forms such as "ccongratulations", "cnogratulations", and "cognratulations". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "congratulating", "congratulation", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct English form is congratulations, spelled C-O-N-G-R-A-T-U-L-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Expressing praise and approval, expressing approbation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how congratulations appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Warm congratulations on your newborn boy!
Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccongratulations
- cnogratulations
- cognratulations
- congartulations
- conggratulations
- congratluations
- congrattulations
- congratualtions
- congratulaitons
- congratulatinos
- congratulationns
- congratulationss
- congratulatiosn
- congratulatoins
- congratulattions
- congratullations
- congratultaions
- congrautlations
- congrratulations
- congrtaulations
- conngratulations
- conrgatulations
- ocngratulations
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of congratulations - 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 "congratulations", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 15 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (23 here; floor ≥5).