heroine

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The English entry for heroine is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈhɪɹoʊɪn/. Corpus data places it at rank #14,337 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for heroine, with forms such as "ehroine", "heorine", and "herione". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "heron", "herring", "heroism", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin hērōīna, from late Ancient Greek ἡρωΐνη (hērōḯnē) (2nd century), a feminine equivalent of ἥρως (hḗrōs, “hero, demigod”), equivalent to hero + -ine (suffix forming feminine nouns). * English from 1587. The sense of "female lead character" is from … 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 heroine, spelled H-E-R-O-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.