congratulations
/kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/
"congratulations" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“congratulations” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #3,610 in English word frequency and used as an interjection.
- #3,610
- frequency rank, English
- 15
- letters
- 23
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Expressing praise and approval, expressing approbation.
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) |
Where “congratulations” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for congratulations is 15 letters long, classified as an interjection, 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 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.
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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Using “congratulations”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-N-G-R-A-T-U-L-A-T-I-O-N-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “congratulating” - see the side-by-side comparison. congratulations vs congratulating
- 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.