galore

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The English entry for galore is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɡəˈlɔː/. Corpus data places it at rank #25,069 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "In abundance.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for galore, with forms such as "aglore", "gallore", and "galoer". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "gore", "gare", "glory", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: PIE word *ḱóm Borrowed from Irish go leor and Scottish Gaelic gu leòr, gu leòir (“till sufficient, enough, plenty”) (compare Manx dy liooar), from Irish go, Scottish Gaelic gu (“to; till, until”) + Irish leor, Scottish Gaelic leòr (“ample, sufficient”); go… 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 galore, spelled G-A-L-O-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.