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The English entry for according is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /əˈkɔː.dɪŋ/. Corpus data places it at rank #523 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "present participle and gerund of accord".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for according, with forms such as "accodring", "accordding", and "accordign". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "accruing", "accordion", "accordingly", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From accord + -ing. 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 according, spelled A-C-C-O-R-D-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.