# harmony

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈhɑː.mə.ni/ · frequency rank #5,971

## Definitions
1. Agreement or accord.
2. A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.
3. The academic study of chords.
4. Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.
5. The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.
6. A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency.

## Etymology
From Middle English armonye, from Old French harmonie, armonie, from Latin harmonia, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονία (harmonía, “joint, union, agreement, concord of sounds”), either from or cognate with ἁρμόζω (harmózō, “I fit together”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to join, fit, fix together”). First attested in 1602. Doublet of harmonia.

## Easily confused with
- **hormone** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/harmony-vs-hormone)
- **Harmon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/harmon-vs-harmony)
- **Harman** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/harman-vs-harmony)
- **Hammond** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hammond-vs-harmony)
- **harmonic** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/harmonic-vs-harmony)

## Common misspellings (11)
`ahrmony`, `hamrony`, `harmmony`, `harmnoy`, `harmonny`, `harmonyy`, `harmoyn`, `haromny`, `harrmony`, `hharmony`, `hramony`

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