# university

> English word · Noun · IPA /junɪˈvɜːsəti/ · frequency rank #407

## Definitions
1. An institution of higher education that provides facilities for teaching, research, and the conferral of academic degrees across undergraduate, graduate, and often professional levels.
2. The entirety of a group; all members of a class.

## Etymology
From Middle English universite (“institution of higher learning, body of persons constituting a university”) from Anglo-Norman université, from Old French universitei, from Medieval Latin stem of universitas, in juridical and Late Latin "a number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc"; in Latin, "the whole, aggregate," from universus (“whole, entire”).

## Easily confused with
- **universality** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/universality-vs-university)

## Common misspellings (15)
`nuiversity`, `uinversity`, `unievrsity`, `univeristy`, `univerrsity`, `universitty`, `universityy`, `universiyt`, `universsity`, `universtiy`, `univesrity`, `univresity`, `univversity`, `unniversity`, `unviersity`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/university