immigrate

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for immigrate is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɪmɪɡɹeɪt/. Corpus data places it at rank #46,537 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "To move into a foreign country to stay permanently.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for immigrate, with forms such as "imigrate", "imimgrate", and "immgirate". 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 also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "immigrant", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin immigratus, past participle of immigro (“remove, move into”). 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 immigrate, spelled I-M-M-I-G-R-A-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.