gusle

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The English entry for gusle is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɡʊslə/. 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: "A single-stringed lute-like musical instrument with a bowl-shaped body, held vertically in the lap and played with a bow, originating among the Slavic peoples in the Balkans, especially in the Dina...".

No misspelling variants are generated for gusle 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 Serbo-Croatian gȕsle /гу̏сле. Doublet of gusli. 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 gusle, spelled G-U-S-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.