diwali

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The English entry for Diwali is 6 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /d̪iˈʋɑli/. Corpus data places it at rank #32,360 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "An annual festival of light, observed during several days in October and November.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Diwali, with forms such as "ddiwali", "diawli", and "diwail". 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, "dial", "Denali", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Hindi दिवाली (divālī), from Sanskrit दीपावलि (dīpāvali, literally “row of lights”), from दीप (dīpa, “light”) + आवलि (āvali, “series, line, row”). Doublet of Deepavali. 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 Diwali, spelled D-I-W-A-L-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.