android

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The English entry for android is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈænˌdɹɔɪd/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,465 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for android, with forms such as "adnroid", "anddroid", and "andorid". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Andrei", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from New Latin androides, from Ancient Greek ἀνδρός (andrós, genitive of ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man, human”)) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, itself from εἶδος (eîdos, “form, image, shape, appearance, look”)). By surface analysis, andr- + -oid. 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 android, spelled A-N-D-R-O-I-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.