ignominy
/ˈɪɡnəˌmɪni/
"ignominy" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ignominy” is an uncommon English word, ranked #66,741 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #66,741
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Great dishonor, shame, or humiliation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ignominy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɪɡnəˌmɪni/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,741 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ignominy” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for ignominy is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɪɡnəˌmɪni/. Corpus data places it at rank #66,741 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Great dishonor, shame, or humiliation.".
ignominy has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French ignominie, from Latin ignōminia, from ig- (“not”) + nomen (“name”) (prefix assimilated form of in-). The correct English form is ignominy, spelled I-G-N-O-M-I-N-Y.
Definition
- 1Great dishonor, shame, or humiliation.
Etymology
Borrowed from French ignominie, from Latin ignōminia, from ig- (“not”) + nomen (“name”) (prefix assimilated form of in-).
This word in other languages
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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Using “ignominy”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is I-G-N-O-M-I-N-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.