everlasting
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "everlasting", 11-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "everlasting" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "everlasting" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
everlasting is anEnglishadj. It means: Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal. Pronounced /ˌɛvəˈlɑːstɪŋ/.
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|---|---|
| Headword | everlasting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /ˌɛvəˈlɑːstɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #16,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for everlasting is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌɛvəˈlɑːstɪŋ/. Corpus data places it at rank #16,227 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for everlasting, with forms such as "eevrlasting", "evelrasting", and "everalsting". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English ever-lasting (“(adjective) eternal, perpetual; constant; (adverb) eternally; (noun) eternity”), from ever (“at all times, always, constantly; eternally, perpetually; regularly; etc.”) + lasting (“continuing, lasting; eternal; etc.”). * E… 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 everlasting, spelled E-V-E-R-L-A-S-T-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal.
- 2Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal.
- 3Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal.
- 4Continuing for a long period; eternal.
- 5Happening all the time, especially to a tiresome extent; constant, incessant, unending.
- 6Of clothing or fabric: lasting a long time; very durable or hard-wearing.
- 7Chiefly in the name of a plant:
- 8Chiefly in the name of a plant:
- 9Used as an intensifier.
Etymology
From Middle English ever-lasting (“(adjective) eternal, perpetual; constant; (adverb) eternally; (noun) eternity”), from ever (“at all times, always, constantly; eternally, perpetually; regularly; etc.”) + lasting (“continuing, lasting; eternal; etc.”). * Ever is derived from Old English ǣfre (“ever”), possibly from ā (“always, ever”) + in fēore (“in life”). Ā is from Proto-West Germanic *aiw (“eternity; long time”), from Proto-Germanic *aiwaz (“long time; eternity”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey- (“life, vital force; long time; eternity”); and fēore is the dative singular of feorh (“life”), from Proto-West Germanic *ferh (“life; kind of tree”), from Proto-Germanic *ferhwą (“body; life; tree”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *perkʷ- (“oak tree”) (as the oak represented life and vitality in Germanic mythology). * Lasting is derived from lasten (“to continue, last; etc.”) + -ing (suffix forming present participle forms of verbs, often used as adjectives)); and lasten from Old English lǣstan (“to follow, pursue; to carry out, perform”), from Proto-West Germanic *laistijan (“to follow, pursue; to carry out, perform”), from Proto-Germanic *laistijaną (“to follow, pursue”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leys- (“to trace, track”). By surface analysis, ever (adverb) + lasting (adjective).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eevrlasting,evelrasting,everalsting,everlasitng,everlassting,everlastign,everlastingg,everlastinng,everlastnig,everlastting,everlatsing,everllasting,everlsating,everrlasting,evrelasting,evverlasting,veerlasting
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Frequency rank: #16,227 in English
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