mighty

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The English entry for mighty is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈmaɪti/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,072 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A warrior of great strength and courage.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for mighty, with forms such as "imghty", "mgihty", and "migghty". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "misty", "minty", "might", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English mighty, mightie, mighti, myghty, miȝty, maȝty, from Old English mihtiġ, mehtiġ, meahtiġ, mæhtiġ (“mighty”), from Proto-West Germanic *mahtīg (“mighty”), from Proto-Germanic *mahtīgaz (“mighty”), equivalent to might + -y. Cognate with Sco… 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 mighty, spelled M-I-G-H-T-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.