almond

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The English entry for almond is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɑː.mənd/. Corpus data places it at rank #14,264 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 12 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 almond, with forms such as "allmond", "almmond", and "almnod". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "Alon", "along", "among", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English almond, almaund, from Old French almande, amande, from Vulgar Latin *amendla, *amandula, from Latin amygdala, from Ancient Greek ἀμυγδάλη (amugdálē), of uncertain origin. Influenced by amandus and by many European words of Arabic origin … 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 almond, spelled A-L-M-O-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.