party
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "party", 5-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "party" 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 "party" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
party is aEnglishnoun. It means: A person or group of people constituting one side in a legal proceeding, such as in a legal action or a contract. Pronounced /ˈpɑː.ti/. It ranks #308 in English word frequency. Often confused with pay and pat.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | party |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpɑː.ti/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #308 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for party is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈpɑː.ti/. Corpus data places it at rank #308 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 17 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for party, with forms such as "aprty", "parrty", and "partty". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pay", "pat", "pry", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English party, partye, partie, from Anglo-Norman partie, from Old French partie (“side, part; portion, share; separation, division”, literally “that which is divided”), noun use of feminine of past participle of Old French partir (“to divide, se… 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 party, spelled P-A-R-T-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A person or group of people constituting one side in a legal proceeding, such as in a legal action or a contract.
- 2A person; an individual.
- 3A person; an individual.
- 4A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest, etc., or united in maintaining a cause, policy, or opinion in opposition to others; a faction.
- 5A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest, etc., or united in maintaining a cause, policy, or opinion in opposition to others; a faction.
- 6A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest, etc., or united in maintaining a cause, policy, or opinion in opposition to others; a faction.
- 7A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest, etc., or united in maintaining a cause, policy, or opinion in opposition to others; a faction.
- 8A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest, etc., or united in maintaining a cause, policy, or opinion in opposition to others; a faction.
- 9A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest, etc., or united in maintaining a cause, policy, or opinion in opposition to others; a faction.
- 10A detachment of troops selected for a particular service or duty.
- 11A group of people gathered together, especially temporarily, for a specific purpose such as travel or sport.
- 12A group of people gathered together, especially temporarily, for a specific purpose such as travel or sport.
- 13A group of people gathered together, especially temporarily, for a specific purpose such as travel or sport.
- 14A small group of birds or mammals.
- 15A part or portion.
- 16A prospective partner or an offer of marriage.
- 17A decision, resolution, agreement.
Etymology
From Middle English party, partye, partie, from Anglo-Norman partie, from Old French partie (“side, part; portion, share; separation, division”, literally “that which is divided”), noun use of feminine of past participle of Old French partir (“to divide, separate”), from Latin partire (“to share, part, distribute, divide”), from pars (“a part, piece, a share”); see also part. First attested in c. 1300. Doublet of partita. The sense of communist party of a communist state derives Russian партия (partija), short for Коммунистическая партия (Kommunističeskaja partija).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aprty,parrty,partty,partyy,paryt,patry,pparty,praty
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for party
Misspelling Variants of "party"
Frequency rank: #308 in English
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