victory
/ˈvɪk.tə.ɹi/
"victory" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“victory” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #1,926 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,926
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The condition or state of having won a battle or competition, or having succeeded in an effort; (countable) an instance of this.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | victory |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈvɪk.tə.ɹi/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “victory” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for victory is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈvɪk.tə.ɹi/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,926 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for victory, with forms such as "ivctory", "vcitory", and "vicctory". 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 also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Viktor", "victor", "vector", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: The noun is derived from Middle English victory, victori, victorie (“supremacy, victory; a defeat or vanquishing, conquest; superior military force; might, power, strength; triumphal celebration or procession; monument commemorating a defeat; superior posit… The correct English form is victory, spelled V-I-C-T-O-R-Y.
Definition
- 1The condition or state of having won a battle or competition, or having succeeded in an effort; (countable) an instance of this.
- 2Alternative letter-case form of Victory (“(uncountable) the Roman goddess of victory, the counterpart of the Greek goddess Nike; also (countable), an artistic depiction of her, chiefly as a winged woman”).
Etymology
The noun is derived from Middle English victory, victori, victorie (“supremacy, victory; a defeat or vanquishing, conquest; superior military force; might, power, strength; triumphal celebration or procession; monument commemorating a defeat; superior position, dominance; mastery; moral victory, vindication; success, triumph; redemption, salvation; resurrection of Jesus; means of achieving spiritual victory; reward for or token of perseverance in a spiritual struggle”) [and other forms], borrowed from Anglo-Norman victorie and Old French victorie, a variant of victoire (“victory, win”) (modern French victoire), from Latin victōria (“victory”), from victor (“champion, winner, victor; conqueror, vanquisher”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to contain, envelop; to overcome”)) + -ia (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). The English word is analysable as victor + -y (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition, quality, or state), and displaced Middle English siȝe, sye. The interjection is derived from the noun. Cognates Cognate with French victoire, Italian vittoria, Portuguese vitoria, Spanish victoria, Romanian victorie. Tamil வெற்றி (veṟṟi) (pronounced roughly like "vetri") is a false cognate.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ivctory,vcitory,vicctory,vicotry,victorry,victoryy,victoyr,victroy,victtory,vitcory,vvictory
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of victory - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “victory”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is V-I-C-T-O-R-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈvɪk.tə.ɹi/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Viktor” - see the side-by-side comparison. victory vs Viktor
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.