album

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The English entry for album is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈælbəm/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,010 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for album, with forms such as "ablum", "albbum", and "albmu". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "alm", "alum", "Alun", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”), from albus (“white”). 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 album, spelled A-L-B-U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.