devoted

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The English entry for devoted is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɪˈvəʊtəd/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,318 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "simple past and past participle of devote".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for devoted, with forms such as "ddevoted", "deovted", and "devoetd". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "devotee", "devote", "devoid", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From devote + -ed. 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 devoted, spelled D-E-V-O-T-E-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.