incorporate

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The English entry for incorporate is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɪŋˈkɔː.pə.ɹeɪt/. Corpus data places it at rank #8,947 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for incorporate, with forms such as "icnorporate", "inccorporate", and "incoprorate". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "incorporated", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English, from Late Latin incorporātus, perfect passive participle of incorporō (“to embody, to incorporate”), from in- (“in”) + corpus, corporis (“body”). 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 incorporate, spelled I-N-C-O-R-P-O-R-A-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.