delft

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The English entry for delft is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [dɛɫft]. Corpus data places it at rank #40,648 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Alternative form of Delft (“style of earthenware”).".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for delft, with forms such as "ddelft", "deflt", and "delfft". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dell", "dent", "deli", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: After the Dutch city of Delft. 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 delft, spelled D-E-L-F-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.