george

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The English entry for George is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dʒɔː(ɹ)dʒ/. Corpus data places it at rank #969 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter G.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for George, with forms such as "egorge", "geogre", and "georeg". 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", "Gere", "gorge", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Name of an early saint, from Middle English George, from Latin Geōrgius, from Ancient Greek Γεώργῐος (Geṓrgĭos), from γεωργός (geōrgós, “farmer, earth worker”), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) (combining form γεω- (geō-)) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”) Doublet of Jorge and … 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 George, spelled G-E-O-R-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.