deborah

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The English entry for Deborah is 7 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈdɛb(ə)ɹə/. Corpus data places it at rank #12,751 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Deborah, with forms such as "dbeorah", "ddeborah", and "debborah". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Debra", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Hebrew דְבוֹרָה (dvorá), meaning bee. 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 Deborah, spelled D-E-B-O-R-A-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.