disgust

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The English entry for disgust is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɪsˈɡʌst/. Corpus data places it at rank #12,755 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "To cause an intense dislike for something.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for disgust, with forms such as "ddisgust", "digsust", and "disggust". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "disuse", "disrupt", "distrust", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Middle French desgouster, from Old French desgouster (“to put off one's appetite”), from des- (“dis-”) + gouster, goster (“to taste”), from Latin gustus (“a tasting”). By surface analysis, dis- + gust (“taste”). The noun is from Middle French … 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 disgust, spelled D-I-S-G-U-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.