# immortal

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ɪˈmɔɹtəl/ · frequency rank #10,064

## Definitions
1. Not susceptible to death; living forever; never dying.
2. Never to be forgotten; that merits being always remembered.
3. Connected with or relating to immortality.
4. Exceedingly great; excessive; grievous.

## Etymology
From Latin immortālis, from prefix im- (“not”) (from in-) + mortālis (“mortal”) (from mors (“death”), combining form mort- + adjectival suffix -alis), equivalent to im- + mortal. Displaced native undeadly, from Old English undēadlīċ.
The term referring to the Persian soldiers was a Calque of Ancient Greek ἀθάνατος (athánatos). One suggestion claimed that "Immortals" were named by the ancient Greeks because wounded soldiers were quickly replaced, while another claimed that it was because Greek informants confused Old Persian *anauša- (“immortal, without death”) with Old Persian *anūšiya- (“companion, royal bodyguard”).

## Easily confused with
- **immoral** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/immoral-vs-immortal)

## Common misspellings (10)
`immoratl`, `immorrtal`, `immortall`, `immortla`, `immorttal`, `immotral`, `immrotal`, `imomrtal`, `imortal`, `mimortal`

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