dignity
/ˈdɪɡnɪti/noun
dignity is spelled D-I-G-N-I-T-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is diginity: about 140 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 65 of all searches for the word. Dignity is a noun meaning “The state of being dignified or worthy of esteem: elevation of mind or character”. The plural of dignity is dignities.
How many letters and syllables are in dignity?
| Letters | 7: D-I-G-N-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 10 times per million words; the 6,884th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, diginity, about 140 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell dignity?
Dignity is spelled D-I-G-N-I-T-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 65 of the searches for dignity in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is dignity?
Dignity appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 6,884th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce dignity?
- /ˈdɪɡnɪti/
Dignity has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-dignity.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with dignity?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as dignity.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tidying.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of dignity
- dignities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dignity mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The state of being dignified or worthy of esteem: elevation of mind or character.
- 2
Decorum, formality, stateliness.
- 3
High office, rank, or station.
- 4
One holding high rank; a dignitary.
- 5
obsoleteFundamental principle; axiom; maxim.
- 6
proscribedRespect.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Dignity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | dignité , forme , rang |
| German | Würde , Förmlichkeit , Amt |
| Portuguese | dignidade |
| Spanish | dignidad , juzgaduría |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does dignity come from?
Inherited from Middle English dignyte, from Old French dignité, from Latin dignitās (“worthiness, merit, dignity, grandeur, authority, rank, office”), from dignus (“worthy, appropriate”), from Proto-Italic *degnos, from Proto-Indo-European *dḱ-nos, from *deḱ- (“to take”). See also decus (“honor, esteem”) and decet (“it is fitting”). Cognate to deign. Doublet of dainty. In this sense, displaced native Old English weorþsċipe, which became Modern English worship. It also displaced native Old English hād (“honor, dignity”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).