indignant

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The English entry for indignant is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɪnˈdɪɡ.nənt/. Corpus data places it at rank #34,539 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Showing anger or indignation, especially at something unjust or wrong.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for indignant, with forms such as "idnignant", "inddignant", and "indginant". 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, "indigent", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin indignāns, present participle of indignor (“to consider as unworthy, be angry or displeased at”), from in- (“privative”) + dignor (“to deem worthy”), from dignus (“worthy”). 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 indignant, spelled I-N-D-I-G-N-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.