convention

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The English entry for convention is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kənˈvɛn.ʃən/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,985 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for convention, with forms such as "cconvention", "cnovention", and "conevntion". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "conversion", "conviction", "conventions", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Recorded since about 1440, borrowed from Middle French convention, from Latin conventiō (“meeting, assembling; agreement, convention”), from conveniō (“come, gather or meet together, assemble”), from con- (“with, together”) + veniō (“come”). Equivalent to c… 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 convention, spelled C-O-N-V-E-N-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.