victory
/ˈvɪk.tə.ɹi/
"victory" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“victory” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,926. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,926
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The condition or state of having won a battle or competition, or having succeeded in an effort; (countable) an instance of this.
Corpus desk
Index EN-victory · victory · English
victory · rank #1,926 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,926
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH tea
Nearest frequency peer: tea (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “victory”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- stress
stress
98,078 corpus weight
- taste
taste
98,077 corpus weight
- tea
tea
98,076 corpus weight
- victory
victory
98,075 corpus weight
- afternoon
afternoon
98,074 corpus weight
- assistant
assistant
98,073 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “victory” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around victory (IPA /ˈvɪk.tə.ɹi/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,926 among 969 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
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”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how victory appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It was a great victory on the battlefield.
I behelde, and the ſame horne made battail agaynſt the ſayntes, yee ãd gat the victory off them: […]
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "victory" maps to 4 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "Viktor". View pair
- 11 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #1,926 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "V" letter cohort. V–Z browse
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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.