prestigious
/pɹɛˈstɪd͡ʒəs/
"prestigious" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“prestigious” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #8,844 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #8,844
- frequency rank, English
- 11
- letters
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Of high prestige.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prestigious |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /pɹɛˈstɪd͡ʒəs/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #8,844 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prestigious” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for prestigious is 11 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pɹɛˈstɪd͡ʒəs/. Corpus data places it at rank #8,844 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Of high prestige.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for prestigious, with forms such as "perstigious", "pprestigious", and "presitgious". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Attested since the 1540s; Latin praestigiosus (“full of tricks”), praestigiae (“juggler's tricks”), possibly an alteration of praestringō (“to blindfold, to dazzle”), from prae- (“before”) with stringō (“to bind or tie”); equivalent to prestige + -ious. Uns… The correct English form is prestigious, spelled P-R-E-S-T-I-G-I-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Of high prestige.
Etymology
Attested since the 1540s; Latin praestigiosus (“full of tricks”), praestigiae (“juggler's tricks”), possibly an alteration of praestringō (“to blindfold, to dazzle”), from prae- (“before”) with stringō (“to bind or tie”); equivalent to prestige + -ious. Unstressed /ɛ/ is retained by analogy with prestige.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: perstigious,pprestigious,presitgious,presstigious,prestgiious,prestiggious,prestigiosu,prestigiouss,prestigiuos,prestigoius,prestiigous,presttigious,pretsigious,prrestigious,prsetigious,rpestigious
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prestigious - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “prestigious”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-R-E-S-T-I-G-I-O-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /pɹɛˈstɪd͡ʒəs/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.