homage

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The English entry for homage is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈhɒmɪd͡ʒ/. Corpus data places it at rank #12,788 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for homage, with forms such as "hhomage", "hmoage", and "hoamge". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "home", "homie", "Homme", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English homage, from Old French homage, hommage, from Medieval Latin homināticum (“homage, the service of a vassal or 'man'”), from Latin homō (“a man, in Medieval Latin a vassal”) + -āticum (noun-forming suffix). The American pronunciations in … 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 homage, spelled H-O-M-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.