glass

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The English entry for glass is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɡlɑːs/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,485 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for glass, with forms such as "galss", "gglass", and "glas". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Gras", "goss", "guess", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English glas, from Old English glæs, from Proto-West Germanic *glas, from Proto-Germanic *glasą, possibly related to Proto-Germanic *glōaną (“to shine”) (compare glow), and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰleh₁- (“to shine, shimme… 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 glass, spelled G-L-A-S-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.