bound

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The English entry for bound is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈbaʊnd/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,212 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "simple past and past participle of bind".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for bound, with forms such as "bbound", "bonud", and "boudn". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bud", "bun", "bout", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English bound, bund (preterite) and bounden, bunden, ibunden, ȝebunden (past participle), from Old English bund- and bunden, ġebunden respectively. See bind. 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 bound, spelled B-O-U-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.