enormity
/ɪˈnɔːmɪti/
"enormity" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“enormity” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #42,628. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,628
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deviation from what is normal or standard; irregularity, abnormality.
Corpus desk
Index EN-enormity · enormity · English
enormity · rank #42,628 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #42,628
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH encoder
Nearest frequency peer: encoder (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “enormity”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- ellipse
ellipse
57,376 corpus weight
- Elysium
Elysium
57,375 corpus weight
- encoder
encoder
57,374 corpus weight
- enormity
enormity
57,373 corpus weight
- espouse
espouse
57,371 corpus weight
- exemplar
exemplar
57,370 corpus weight
What this shows “enormity” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enormity |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɪˈnɔːmɪti/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #42,628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “enormity”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around enormity (IPA /ɪˈnɔːmɪti/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,628 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for enormity, with forms such as "ennormity", "enomrity", and "enorimty". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "enmity", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Late Middle English ēnorme (“monstrous or unnatural act; enormity”), from Old French énormité (“enormity”), from Latin ēnormitās (“irregularity; enormity”), from ēnōrmis (“irregular, unusual; enormous, immense”) + -itās (suffix forming nouns indicating… The correct English form is enormity, spelled E-N-O-R-M-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Deviation from what is normal or standard; irregularity, abnormality.
- 2Deviation from moral normality; extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty.
- 3A breach of law or morality; a transgression, an act of evil or wickedness.
- 4Great size; enormousness, hugeness, immenseness.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enormity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Not until the war ended and journalists were able to enter Cambodia did the world really become aware of the enormity of Pol Pot’s oppression.
I had an obscure feeling that all was not over, and that he would still commit some signal crime, which by its enormity should almost efface the recollection of the past.
Etymology
From Late Middle English ēnorme (“monstrous or unnatural act; enormity”), from Old French énormité (“enormity”), from Latin ēnormitās (“irregularity; enormity”), from ēnōrmis (“irregular, unusual; enormous, immense”) + -itās (suffix forming nouns indicating states of being). Ēnōrmis is derived from e- (a variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘out; away’) + nōrma (“norm, standard”) + -is (Latin suffix forming adjectives from nouns).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ennormity
- enomrity
- enorimty
- enormitty
- enormityy
- enormiyt
- enormmity
- enormtiy
- enorrmity
- enromity
- eonrmity
- neormity
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of enormity - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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