experiment

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The English entry for experiment is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mənt/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,751 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for experiment, with forms such as "epxeriment", "exepriment", and "expeirment". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "experiments", "experimental", "expedient", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English experiment, from Old French esperiment (French expérience), from Latin experimentum (“experience, attempt, experiment”), from experior (“to experience, to attempt”), itself from ex + *perior, in turn from Proto-Indo-European *per-. 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 experiment, spelled E-X-P-E-R-I-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.