coordinate

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The English entry for coordinate is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kəʊˈɔː.dɪ.nɪt/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,310 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Of the same rank; equal.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for coordinate, with forms such as "ccoordinate", "coodrinate", and "coorddinate". 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, "coordinator", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Medieval Latin coōrdinātus, perfect passive participle of coōrdinō (“arrange together”), from co- + ōrdinō, equivalent to co- + ordinate. See -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more. See also ordain and ordinate. 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 coordinate, spelled C-O-O-R-D-I-N-A-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.