anilingus

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The English entry for anilingus is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌeɪ.nɪˈlɪŋ.ɡəs/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Performance of oral sex upon the anus.".

No misspelling variants are generated for anilingus in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: Allegedly coined by sexologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing who had already used cunnilingus in such a sense of denoting the practice instead of its actor and spread by the tenth edition of Psychopathia sexualis of 1898 (English edition page 185, German edition… 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 anilingus, spelled A-N-I-L-I-N-G-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.