legality
/liˈɡælɪti/
"legality" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“legality” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #17,886. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,886
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lawfulness.
Corpus desk
Index EN-legality · legality · English
legality · rank #17,886 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,886
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Lenny
Nearest frequency peer: Lenny (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “legality”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- launcher
launcher
82,117 corpus weight
- legality
legality
82,115 corpus weight
- Lenny
Lenny
82,114 corpus weight
- lessen
lessen
82,113 corpus weight
- lifespan
lifespan
82,112 corpus weight
- longitudinal
longitudinal
82,111 corpus weight
What this shows “legality” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | legality |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /liˈɡælɪti/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,886 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “legality”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around legality (IPA /liˈɡælɪti/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,886 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for legality, with forms such as "elgality", "leaglity", and "legailty". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "legally", "locality", "legalize", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From legal + -ity. The correct English form is legality, spelled L-E-G-A-L-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Lawfulness.
- 2A dice game; the same as chuck-a-luck.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how legality appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Brought from all the recesses of the coast in all the legality of time contracts, lost in uncongenial surroundings, fed on unfamiliar food, they sickened, became inefficient, and were then allowed to crawl away and rest.
There was one game in particular called “legality,” in which the managers of the establishment played against all comers. It was a game in which six numbers were marked upon a board, the players staked upon a number, the keeper of the bank threw against the players, and according to whether they were successful or not in the number they backed, they won o…
Etymology
From legal + -ity.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elgality
- leaglity
- legailty
- legalitty
- legalityy
- legaliyt
- legallity
- legaltiy
- leggality
- leglaity
- lgeality
- llegality
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of legality - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "legality", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).