divisor
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "divisor", 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 "divisor" 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 "divisor" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
divisor is aEnglishnoun. It means: In an expression involving division, the number by which another number is being divided. Pronounced /dɪˈvaɪ.zə(ɹ)/.
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| Headword | divisor |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɪˈvaɪ.zə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,979 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for divisor is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɪˈvaɪ.zə(ɹ)/. Corpus data places it at rank #57,979 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for divisor in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable English patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is divisor, spelled D-I-V-I-S-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1In an expression involving division, the number by which another number is being divided.
- 2An integer that divides another integer an integral number of times, the former being called a divisor of the latter.
- 3An integer that divides another integer an integral number of times, the former being called a divisor of the latter.
- 4Any of several kinds of formal object associated to an algebraic variety, scheme, etc., which play a role similar to that of homology or cohomology groups in the study of topological spaces.
- 5Any of several kinds of formal object associated to an algebraic variety, scheme, etc., which play a role similar to that of homology or cohomology groups in the study of topological spaces.
- 6Any of several kinds of formal object associated to an algebraic variety, scheme, etc., which play a role similar to that of homology or cohomology groups in the study of topological spaces.
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Frequency rank: #57,979 in English
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