mighty
/ˈmaɪti/
"mighty" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mighty” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #6,072. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,072
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A warrior of great strength and courage.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mighty · mighty · English
mighty · rank #6,072 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,072
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH matching
Nearest frequency peer: matching (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “mighty”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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93,932 corpus weight
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93,931 corpus weight
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93,930 corpus weight
- mighty
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93,929 corpus weight
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93,928 corpus weight
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93,927 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “mighty” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | mighty |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmaɪti/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mighty” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around mighty (IPA /ˈmaɪti/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,072 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A warrior of great strength and courage.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for mighty, with forms such as "imghty", "mgihty", and "migghty". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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… The correct English form is mighty, spelled M-I-G-H-T-Y.
Definition
- 1A warrior of great strength and courage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mighty appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties.
Etymology
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 Scots michty, mychty, Saterland Frisian machtich, Dutch machtig, German Low German machtig, German mächtig, Swedish mäktig.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imghty
- mgihty
- migghty
- mighhty
- mightty
- mightyy
- mighyt
- migthy
- mihgty
- mmighty
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mighty - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mighty", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "mighty" maps to 4 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "misty". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #6,072 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.