include

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The English entry for include is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɪnˈkluːd/. Corpus data places it at rank #620 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for include, with forms such as "icnlude", "incclude", and "incldue". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "intrude", "included", "includes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English includen, borrowed from Latin inclūdere (“to shut in, enclose, insert”), from in- (“in”) + claudere (“to shut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂w- (“key, hook, nail”). Doublet of enclose. Displaced native Old English belūcan (… 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 include, spelled I-N-C-L-U-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.