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realities

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Detailed reference entry for the English word "realities", 9-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 "realities" 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 "realities" 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

“realities” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #11,773 in English word frequency and used as a noun.

#11,773
frequency rank, English
9
letters
12
tracked misspellings

Dominant Wiktionary sense: plural of reality.

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Key facts for realities
PropertyValue
Headwordrealities
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Frequency rank#11,773
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “realities” sits in English frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). realities lands here:

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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for realities is 9 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #11,773 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "plural of reality.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for realities, with forms such as "eralities", "raelities", and "reailties". 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 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 realities, spelled R-E-A-L-I-T-I-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    plural of reality.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: eralities,raelities,reailties,realiites,realiteis,realitiess,realitise,realitties,reallities,realtiies,relaities,rrealities

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of realities — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "realities"

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Edit distance from "realities"

Frequency rank: #11,773 in English

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "realities"?
"realities" is spelled R-E-A-L-I-T-I-E-S.
What does "realities" mean?
As a noun, "realities" means: plural of reality.
What are common misspellings of "realities"?
Common misspellings include "eralities", "raelities", "reailties", "realiites", "realiteis". The correct spelling is "realities".
What language does "realities" come from?
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Using “realities”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is R-E-A-L-I-T-I-E-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.