importance

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The English entry for importance is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɪmˈpɔːtəns/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,683 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for importance, with forms such as "immportance", "imoprtance", and "imporatnce". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "important", "impotence", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English importaunce, from Middle French importance, from Medieval Latin importantia. By surface analysis, import (“to be important”) + -ance. 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 importance, spelled I-M-P-O-R-T-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.