cholera

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The English entry for cholera is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkɒləɹə/. Corpus data places it at rank #19,787 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Any of several acute infectious diseases of humans and domestic animals, caused by certain strains of the Vibrio cholerae bacterium through ingestion of contaminated water or food, usually marked b...".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for cholera, with forms such as "ccholera", "chholera", and "chloera". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "cooler", "Chopra", "choker", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin cholera (“bilious disease”), from Ancient Greek χολέρα (kholéra, “cholera”). Doublet of choler. 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 cholera, spelled C-H-O-L-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.