kind

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for kind is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kaɪnd/. Corpus data places it at rank #337 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for kind, with forms such as "iknd", "kidn", and "kindd". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "kit", "kun", "kip", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English kynde, kinde, from Old English cynd, ġecynd (“inherent nature, disposition, kind, gender, generation, race”), from Proto-West Germanic *kundi, from Proto-Germanic *kinþiz, related to Proto-Germanic *kunją (“race, kin”) and Old English ce… 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 kind, spelled K-I-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.