constitutional
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "constitutional", 14-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "constitutional" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "constitutional" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
constitutional is anEnglishadj. It means: Belonging to, or inherent in, the constitution or structure of one's body or mind. Pronounced /ˌkɒn.stɪˈtjuː.ʃ(ə)n.(ə)l/. It ranks #4,072 in English word frequency. Often confused with constitutionally and constitution.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | constitutional |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /ˌkɒn.stɪˈtjuː.ʃ(ə)n.(ə)l/ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #4,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 21 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for constitutional is 14 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌkɒn.stɪˈtjuː.ʃ(ə)n.(ə)l/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,072 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 21 documented wrong-spelling variants for constitutional, with forms such as "cconstitutional", "cnostitutional", and "connstitutional". 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, "constitutionally", "constitution", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: PIE word *ḱóm From constitution + -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Constitution is derived from Middle English constitucioun, constitucion (“edict, law, ordinance, regulation, rule, statute; body of laws or rules, or customs; … 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 constitutional, spelled C-O-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-I-O-N-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Belonging to, or inherent in, the constitution or structure of one's body or mind.
- 2For the benefit of one's constitution or health.
- 3Relating to the constitution or composition of something; essential, fundamental.
- 4Relating to a legal or political constitution (“the basic law of a nation or institution; the formal or informal system of primary principles and laws that regulates a government or other institution”).
- 5In compliance with or valid under a legal or political constitution.
- 6Of a monarch: having a purely ceremonial role, or possessing powers limited by a constitution rather than plenary or unlimited powers.
Etymology
PIE word *ḱóm From constitution + -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Constitution is derived from Middle English constitucioun, constitucion (“edict, law, ordinance, regulation, rule, statute; body of laws or rules, or customs; body of fundamental principles; principle or rule (of science); creation”) from Old French constitucion (modern French constitution), a learned borrowing from Latin cōnstitūtiō, cōnstitūtiōnem (“character, constitution, disposition, nature; definition; point in dispute; order, regulation; arrangement, system”), from cōnstituō (“to establish, set up; to confirm; to decide, resolve”) (from con- (prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects) + statuō (“to set up, station; to establish; to determine, fix”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”))) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or the results of actions), -tiōnem (accusative singular of -tiō).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconstitutional,cnostitutional,connstitutional,consittutional,consstitutional,constittuional,constittutional,constituitonal,constitutinoal,constitutioanl,constitutionall,constitutionla,constitutionnal,constitutoinal,constituttional,constiuttional,consttitutional,consttiutional,contsitutional,cosntitutional,ocnstitutional
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for constitutional
Misspelling Variants of "constitutional"
Frequency rank: #4,072 in English
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