nationalist

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The English entry for nationalist is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈnæʃ.ə.nə.lɪst/. Corpus data places it at rank #8,173 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Of or relating to nationalism.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for nationalist, with forms such as "antionalist", "naitonalist", and "natinoalist". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "nationals", "nationality", "nationalistic", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From national + -ist. 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 nationalist, spelled N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-I-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.