entry
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "entry", 5-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 "entry" 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 "entry" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
entry is aEnglishnoun. It means: The act of entering. Pronounced /ˈɛntɹi/. It ranks #2,152 in English word frequency. Often confused with envy and every.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entry |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɛntɹi/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for entry is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɛntɹi/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,152 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for entry, with forms such as "enntry", "enrty", and "entrry". 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, "envy", "every", "envoy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English entre, from Old French entree (feminine past participle of the verb entrer, Modern French entrée). From Latin intrō. Doublet of entrada and entrée. 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 entry, spelled E-N-T-R-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1The act of entering.
- 2Permission to enter.
- 3A doorway that provides a means of entering a building.
- 4The act of taking possession.
- 5The start of an insurance contract.
- 6A passageway between terraced houses that provides a means of entering a back garden or yard.
- 7A small room immediately inside the front door of a house or other building, often having an access to a stairway and leading on to other rooms
- 8A small group formed within a church, especially Episcopal, for simple dinner and fellowship, and to help facilitate new friendships
- 9An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia.
- 10A record made in a log, diary or anything similarly organized; (computing) a datum in a database.
- 11A term at any position in a matrix.
- 12The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure licence to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods.
- 13The point when a musician starts to play or sing; entrance.
- 14The introduction of new hounds into a pack.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English entre, from Old French entree (feminine past participle of the verb entrer, Modern French entrée). From Latin intrō. Doublet of entrada and entrée.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enntry,enrty,entrry,entryy,enttry,entyr,etnry,netry
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for entry
Misspelling Variants of "entry"
Frequency rank: #2,152 in English
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