apple-of-discord

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for apple of discord is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈæp(ə)l əv ˈdɪskɔːd/. 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: "An object or topic which sows anger and dissension; something which causes argument, rivalry, or strife.".

No misspelling variants are generated for apple of discord 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: A reference to the μῆλον τῆς Ἔριδος (mêlon tês Éridos, “apple of Eris”) in Greek mythology, a golden apple inscribed ‘for the fairest female’ which Eris (known as Discordia to the Romans), the goddess of discord and strife, tossed in the midst of the feast … 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 apple of discord, spelled A-P-P-L-E- -O-F- -D-I-S-C-O-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.