# diligence

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈdɪlɪdʒəns/ · frequency rank #14,740

## Definitions
1. Steady application; industry; careful work involving long-term effort.
2. The qualities of a hard worker, including conscientiousness, determination, and perseverance.
3. Carefulness, in particular, the necessary care appropriate to a particular task or responsibility.
4. A four-wheeled public stage-coach, widely used in France before the general establishment of the railways.
5. The process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.

## Etymology
Borrowed from French diligence, from Latin diligentia.

## Easily confused with
- **diligent** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/diligence-vs-diligent)

## Common misspellings (14)
`ddiligence`, `diilgence`, `dilgience`, `diliegnce`, `diligance`, `diligecne`, `diligencce`, `diligenec`, `diligennce`, `diliggence`, `dilignece`, `dilligence`, `dliigence`, `idligence`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/diligence