parting-of-the-ways
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "parting-of-the-ways", 19-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Wiktionary, and usage frequency ranked against an open word-frequency list covering the top 100,000 English words. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "parting-of-the-ways" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "parting-of-the-ways" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
The verdict
“parting of the ways” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: a separation of two things or people because of a disagreement, a point of divergence, especially an important one
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Browse all word comparisons →| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parting of the ways |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “parting of the ways” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for parting of the ways is 19 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "a separation of two things or people because of a disagreement, a point of divergence, especially an important one".
No misspelling variants are generated for parting of the ways in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is parting of the ways, spelled P-A-R-T-I-N-G- -O-F- -T-H-E- -W-A-Y-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1a separation of two things or people because of a disagreement, a point of divergence, especially an important one
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- The one correct English spelling is P-A-R-T-I-N-G- -O-F- -T-H-E- -W-A-Y-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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