account
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "account", 7-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "account" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "account" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
account is aEnglishnoun. It means: A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. Pronounced /əˈkaʊnt/. It ranks #616 in English word frequency. Often confused with amount and accounts.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | account |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈkaʊnt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for account is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /əˈkaʊnt/. Corpus data places it at rank #616 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for account, with forms such as "acconut", "accounnt", and "accountt". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "amount", "accounts", "accounted", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Old French a- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin com- Proto-Italic *putos Latin putus? Proto-Indo-Europ… 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 account, spelled A-C-C-O-U-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.
- 2A bank account.
- 3A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
- 4A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
- 5A record of events; a relation or narrative.
- 6An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
- 7Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
- 8Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
- 9A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
- 10Profit; advantage.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Old French a- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin com- Proto-Italic *putos Latin putus? Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin putō Latin computō Old French conter Old French aconter Anglo-Norman acuntebor. Middle English acounte English account From Middle English acounte, from Anglo-Norman acunte (“account”), from Old French aconte, from aconter (“to reckon”), from Latin computō (“to sum up”).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acconut,accounnt,accountt,accoutn,accuont,acocunt,acount,cacount
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for account
Misspelling Variants of "account"
Frequency rank: #616 in English
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