appoint

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The English entry for appoint is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /əˈpɔɪnt/. Corpus data places it at rank #11,163 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for appoint, with forms such as "apoint", "apopint", and "appiont". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "appointed", "appointee", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English apointen, borrowed from Old French apointier (“to prepare, arrange, lean, place”) (French appointer (“to give a salary, refer a cause”)), from Late Latin appunctō (“to bring back to the point, restore, to fix the point in a controversy, … 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 appoint, spelled A-P-P-O-I-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.