exit

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The English entry for exit is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɛksɪt/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,943 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for exit, with forms such as "eixt", "exitt", and "exti". 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, "expo", "exon", "expat", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English exit, from Latin exitus (“departure, going out; way by which one may go out, egress; (figuratively) conclusion, termination; (figuratively) death; income, revenue”), from exeō (“to depart, exit; to avoid, evade; (figuratively) to escape;… 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 exit, spelled E-X-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.