deposit
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "deposit", 7-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "deposit" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "deposit" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
deposit is aEnglishnoun. It means: Sediment or rock that is not native to its present location or is different from the surrounding material. Sometimes refers to ore or gems. Pronounced /dɪˈpɒz.ɪt/. It ranks #4,750 in English word frequency. Often confused with depot and deposits.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deposit |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɪˈpɒz.ɪt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for deposit is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɪˈpɒz.ɪt/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,750 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for deposit, with forms such as "ddeposit", "deopsit", and "depoist". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "depot", "deposits", "deposited", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē- Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó Proto-Indo-European *teḱ-der. Proto-Indo-European *tḱey-der. Proto-Italic *sinō Proto-Italic *pozinō Old Latin *poznō Latin pōnō … 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 deposit, spelled D-E-P-O-S-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sediment or rock that is not native to its present location or is different from the surrounding material. Sometimes refers to ore or gems.
- 2Bailment of personal property to be kept gratuitously for the bailor (depositor) and without any benefit to the bailee (depositary), e.g. for storage, carriage, repair, etc.
- 3Money placed in a bank account, as for safekeeping or to earn interest.
- 4Anything left behind on a surface.
- 5A sum of money or other asset given as an initial payment, to show good faith, or to reserve something for purchase.
- 6A sum of money given as a security for a borrowed item, which will be given back when the item is returned, e.g. a bottle deposit or can deposit
- 7A place of deposit; a depository.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē- Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó Proto-Indo-European *teḱ-der. Proto-Indo-European *tḱey-der. Proto-Italic *sinō Proto-Italic *pozinō Old Latin *poznō Latin pōnō Latin dēpōnō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Latin deposituslbor. English deposit Learned borrowing from Latin depositus, past participle of depono (“put down”). Doublet of depot.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddeposit,deopsit,depoist,depositt,depossit,deposti,depposit,depsoit,dpeosit,edposit
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for deposit
Misspelling Variants of "deposit"
Frequency rank: #4,750 in English
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