glottis

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The English entry for glottis is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɡlɒt.ɪs/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The opening between the true vocal cords which is located in the larynx and affects voice modulation through expansion or contraction.".

No misspelling variants are generated for glottis 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: Late 16th century borrowing from New Latin glōttis, from Ancient Greek γλωττῐ́ς (glōttĭ́s, “mouth of the windpipe”), from γλῶττᾰ (glôttă, “tongue”) + -ῐς (-ĭs, feminine noun suffix). Cognates include Latin gula. 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 glottis, spelled G-L-O-T-T-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.