book of original entry
"book-of-original-entry" is a 19-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“book of original entry” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A record book in which all transactions (or all of a certain class) of a business are recorded and from entries are made in accounting records such as the general ledger or subsidiary ledgers.
Corpus desk
Index EN-book-of-original-entry · book of original entry · English
book of original entry · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 22 letters
- VOW-9 9 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | book of original entry |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “book of original entry” in English
Rare enough to double-check
book of original entry is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A record book in which all transactions (or all of a certain class) of a business are recorded and from entries are made in accounting records such as the general ledger or subsidiary ledgers.".
Zero misspellings are on record for book of original entry in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is book of original entry, spelled B-O-O-K- -O-F- -O-R-I-G-I-N-A-L- -E-N-T-R-Y.
Definition
- 1A record book in which all transactions (or all of a certain class) of a business are recorded and from entries are made in accounting records such as the general ledger or subsidiary ledgers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how book of original entry appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
When a transaction has been written down at length in a book of original entry, there is generally no occasion to make another minute of the same transaction before it is posted.
Each book of Original Entry is usually paged off by itself; and, if we have several original books, the phraseology before each item in the Ledger, will be sufficient to determine the kind of original book
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.