gratitude

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The English entry for gratitude is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɡɹætɪtjud/. Corpus data places it at rank #8,041 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The state of being grateful.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for gratitude, with forms such as "gartitude", "ggratitude", and "graittude". 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 French gratitude, from Medieval Latin grātitūdō (“thankfulness”), from Latin grātus (“thankful”). Displaced native Old English þancung. 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 gratitude, spelled G-R-A-T-I-T-U-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.