nights

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The English entry for nights is 6 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /naɪts/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,186 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "At night (during night-time, especially on a regular basis).".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for nights, with forms such as "inghts", "ngihts", and "nigghts". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "nigh", "night", "nightly", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English nightes, from Old English nihtes (“at night, by night”), equivalent to night + -s (adverbial genitive suffix). Cognate with Old Frisian nachtes, Old Saxon nahtes, German nachts (all “nights, at night”). 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 nights, spelled N-I-G-H-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.