indulgent

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The English entry for indulgent is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɪnˈdʌld͡ʒənt/. Corpus data places it at rank #25,795 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Disposed or prone to indulge, humor, gratify, or yield to one's own or another's desires, etc., or to be compliant, lenient, or forbearing.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for indulgent, with forms such as "idnulgent", "inddulgent", and "indlugent". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "insurgent", "indulging", "indulge", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin indulgēns, indulgentem, present participle of indulgēre. 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 indulgent, spelled I-N-D-U-L-G-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.