sanctimonious
/ˌsæŋk.tɪˈməʊ.ni.əs/
"sanctimonious" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sanctimonious” has 19 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #48,467. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,467
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Making a show of being morally better than others, especially hypocritically pious.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sanctimonious |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˌsæŋk.tɪˈməʊ.ni.əs/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #48,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sanctimonious” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around sanctimonious (IPA /ˌsæŋk.tɪˈməʊ.ni.əs/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #48,467 among 54,294 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for sanctimonious, with forms such as "asnctimonious", "sacntimonious", and "sancctimonious". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sanctimony + -ous. The correct English form is sanctimonious, spelled S-A-N-C-T-I-M-O-N-I-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Making a show of being morally better than others, especially hypocritically pious.
- 2Holy, devout.
Etymology
From sanctimony + -ous.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asnctimonious
- sacntimonious
- sancctimonious
- sancitmonious
- sanctimmonious
- sanctimnoious
- sanctimoinous
- sanctimoniosu
- sanctimoniouss
- sanctimoniuos
- sanctimonnious
- sanctimonoius
- sanctiomnious
- sanctmionious
- sancttimonious
- sannctimonious
- santcimonious
- snactimonious
- ssanctimonious
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sanctimonious - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “sanctimonious”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-A-N-C-T-I-M-O-N-I-O-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˌsæŋk.tɪˈməʊ.ni.əs/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.