dodge

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The English entry for dodge is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɒd͡ʒ/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,913 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for dodge, with forms such as "ddodge", "ddoge", and "doddge". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dog", "doe", "done", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Likely from dialectal dodge, dod, dodd (“to jog, trudge along, totter", also "to jerk, jig”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from unrecorded Middle English *dodden, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dud- (“to move”), related to Old English dydrian, dyderian (“t… 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 dodge, spelled D-O-D-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.