catalogue

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The English entry for catalogue is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkæt.əˌlɒɡ/. Corpus data places it at rank #8,126 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for catalogue, with forms such as "actalogue", "caatlogue", and "catalgoue". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "catalog", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English cathaloge, from Old French catalogue, from Late Latin catalogus, itself from Ancient Greek κατάλογος (katálogos, “enrollment, register”), from καταλέγω (katalégō, “to recount, make a list”), from κατα- (kata-, “downwards, towards”) + λέγ… 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 catalogue, spelled C-A-T-A-L-O-G-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.