strongest

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The English entry for strongest is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈstɹɒŋɡəst/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,921 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "superlative form of strong: most strong".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for strongest, with forms such as "srtongest", "sstrongest", and "storngest". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "stronger", "stringent", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English strongeste, strengeste (“stronger”), from Old English strongesta, strengesta (“strongest”), from Proto-Germanic *strangistô (“*stronger”), superlative of Proto-Germanic *strangaz (“strong”). More at strong. 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 strongest, spelled S-T-R-O-N-G-E-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.