unanimity

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The English entry for unanimity is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌjuːnəˈnɪmɪti/. Corpus data places it at rank #50,867 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The condition of agreement by all parties, the state of being unanimous.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for unanimity in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable English patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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.

Etymologically, the entry records: From unanim(ous) + -ity, from Middle French unanimité, from Late Latin ūnanimitās. Displaced native Old English ānmōdnes (literally “one-mindedness”). 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 unanimity, spelled U-N-A-N-I-M-I-T-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.