ghazal

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The English entry for ghazal is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɡæzæl/. Corpus data places it at rank #74,120 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Middle Eastern, South, and Central Asian poetry.".

No misspelling variants are generated for ghazal in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Arabic غَزَل (ḡazal, “to display love to the loved one via speech, to exchange talk of love with the loved one”). 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 ghazal, spelled G-H-A-Z-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.