dignity

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The English entry for dignity is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈdɪɡnɪti/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,892 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 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for dignity, with forms such as "ddignity", "dginity", and "diggnity". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "divinity", "digit", "digits", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: 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 *de… 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 dignity, spelled D-I-G-N-I-T-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.