# codex

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈkəʊdɛks/ · frequency rank #22,932

## Definitions
1. An early manuscript book.
2. A book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.
3. An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.

## Etymology
From Latin cōdex, variant form of caudex (“tree trunk, book, notebook”); compare caudex (in botany). Doublet of code.

## Easily confused with
- **cox** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/codex-vs-cox)
- **Coe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/codex-vs-coe)
- **come** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/codex-vs-come)
- **core** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/codex-vs-core)
- **cole** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/codex-vs-cole)
- **coke** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/codex-vs-coke)
- **cope** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/codex-vs-cope)
- **cone** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/codex-vs-cone)
- **Cody** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/codex-vs-cody)
- **cove** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/codex-vs-cove)
- **cote** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/codex-vs-cote)
- **coed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/codex-vs-coed)
- **comes** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/codex-vs-comes)
- **cover** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/codex-vs-cover)
- **Cohen** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/codex-vs-cohen)
- **Corey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/codex-vs-corey)
- **comet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/codex-vs-comet)
- **cores** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/codex-vs-cores)
- **Cones** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/codex-vs-cones)
- **Comey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/codex-vs-comey)

## Common misspellings (7)
`ccodex`, `cdoex`, `coddex`, `codexx`, `codxe`, `coedx`, `ocdex`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/codex