gateway
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "gateway", 7-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 "gateway" 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 "gateway" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
gateway is aEnglishnoun. It means: A passage that can be closed by use of a gate. Pronounced /ˈɡeɪtˌweɪ/. It ranks #9,185 in English word frequency. Often confused with getaway and Galway.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gateway |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡeɪtˌweɪ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,185 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for gateway is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɡeɪtˌweɪ/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,185 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for gateway, with forms such as "agteway", "gaetway", and "gateawy". 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, "getaway", "Galway", "gameday", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From gate + way. 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 gateway, spelled G-A-T-E-W-A-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A passage that can be closed by use of a gate.
- 2A place regarded as giving access to somewhere.
- 3Any point that represents the beginning of a transition from one place or phase to another.
- 4Any point that represents the beginning of a transition from one place or phase to another.
- 5A point at which freight moving from one territory to another is interchanged between transportation lines.
- 6In wireless internet, an access point with additional software capabilities such as providing NAT and DHCP, which may also provide VPN support, roaming, firewalls, various levels of security, etc.
Etymology
From gate + way.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agteway,gaetway,gateawy,gatewayy,gatewway,gatewya,gatteway,gatweay,ggateway,gtaeway
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Misspelling Variants of "gateway"
Frequency rank: #9,185 in English
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