# normal

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˈnɔː.məl/ · frequency rank #1,054

## Definitions
1. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
2. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
3. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
4. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
5. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
6. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
7. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
8. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
9. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
10. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
11. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
12. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
13. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
14. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
15. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
16. Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself.
17. Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself.
18. Teaching teachers how to teach; teaching teachers the norms of education.
19. Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution.
20. Describing a straight chain isomer of an aliphatic hydrocarbon, or an aliphatic compound in which a substituent is in the 1- position of such a hydrocarbon.
21. In which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency (a normal mode).
22. In the default position, set for the most frequently used route.
23. Perpendicular to a tangent of a curve or tangent plane of a surface.

## Etymology
From Latin normālis (“made according to a carpenter's square; later: according to a rule”), from nōrma (“carpenter's square”), of uncertain origin; doublet of normale. The earliest meaning of the word in English was "perpendicular; forming a right angle" like something normālis (“made according to a carpenter's square”), but by Late Latin normālis had also come to mean "according to a rule", from which modern English senses of the word derive: in the 1800s, as people began to quantitatively study things like height, weight and blood pressure, the usual or most common values came to be called "normal", and by extension values regarded as healthy or desirable came to be called "normal" regardless of their usuality.

## Easily confused with
- **Norway** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/normal-vs-norway)
- **Norman** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/normal-vs-norman)
- **Norwalk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/normal-vs-norwalk)
- **normally** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/normal-vs-normally)
- **normalcy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/normal-vs-normalcy)
- **norm** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/norm-vs-normal)
- **Nora** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nora-vs-normal)
- **Norma** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/norma-vs-normal)
- **nomad** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nomad-vs-normal)
- **NORAD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/norad-vs-normal)

## Common misspellings (9)
`nnormal`, `nomral`, `noraml`, `normall`, `normla`, `normmal`, `norrmal`, `nromal`, `onrmal`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/normal