eject

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The English entry for eject is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɪˈd͡ʒɛkt/. Corpus data places it at rank #29,254 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.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for eject, with forms such as "eejct", "ejcet", and "ejecct". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "exec", "event", "exact", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle French éjecter, from Latin ēiectus, perfect passive participle of ēiciō (“to throw out”), or from ēiectō, the frequentative form of the same verb, from ē-, combining form of ex (“out”), + iaciō (“to throw”). 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 eject, spelled E-J-E-C-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.