dialogue

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The English entry for dialogue is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈdaɪəlɒɡ/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,367 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 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 dialogue, with forms such as "dailogue", "ddialogue", and "dialgoue". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "dialogues", "dialog", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English dialog, from Old French dialoge (French dialogue), from Late Latin dialogus, from Ancient Greek διάλογος (diálogos, “conversation, discourse”), from διά (diá, “through, inter”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech, oration, discourse”), fro… 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 dialogue, spelled D-I-A-L-O-G-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.