choice

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The English entry for choice is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /tʃɔɪs/. Corpus data places it at rank #862 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 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 choice, with forms such as "cchoice", "chhoice", and "chioce". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "chose", "choir", "choke", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English chois, from Old French chois (“choice”), from choisir (“to choose, perceive”), possibly via assumed Vulgar Latin *causīre (“to choose”), from Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (kausjan, “to make a choice, taste, test, choose”), from Proto-Germanic *… 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 choice, spelled C-H-O-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.