accurate

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The English entry for accurate is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈak.jʊ.ɹɪt/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,606 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for accurate, with forms such as "accruate", "accuarte", and "accuraet". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "accurately", "accuracy", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: First attested in the 1610's with the now obsolete sense "done with care", and from the 1650's with the sense "precise, exact". Borrowed from Latin accūrātus (“done with care”), perfect passive participle of accūrō (“take care of”) (see -ate (verb-forming s… 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 accurate, spelled A-C-C-U-R-A-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.