discharge
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "discharge", 9-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 "discharge" 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 "discharge" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
discharge is aEnglishverb. It means: To accomplish or complete, as an obligation. Pronounced /dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒ/. It ranks #7,911 in English word frequency. Often confused with discharged.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | discharge |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,911 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for discharge is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒ/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,911 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 19 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for discharge, with forms such as "ddischarge", "dicsharge", and "discahrge". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "discharged", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English dischargen, from Old French deschargier (“to unload”), from Late Latin discarricāre (“unload”). By surface analysis, dis- + charge. 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 discharge, spelled D-I-S-C-H-A-R-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
- 2To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
- 3To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
- 4To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
- 5To expel or let go.
- 6To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
- 7To release (an accumulated charge).
- 8To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- 9To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- 10To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- 11To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
- 12To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
- 13To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
- 14To unload a ship or another means of transport.
- 15To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
- 16To give forth; to emit or send out.
- 17To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
- 18To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
- 19To prohibit; to forbid.
Etymology
From Middle English dischargen, from Old French deschargier (“to unload”), from Late Latin discarricāre (“unload”). By surface analysis, dis- + charge.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddischarge,dicsharge,discahrge,disccharge,dischagre,dischareg,dischargge,discharrge,dischharge,dischrage,dishcarge,disscharge,dsicharge,idscharge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for discharge
Misspelling Variants of "discharge"
Frequency rank: #7,911 in English
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