israeli

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The English entry for Israeli is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɪzˈɹeɪli/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,633 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A person from Israel or of Israeli descent.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Israeli, with forms such as "irsaeli", "isareli", and "israeil". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Israelis", "Israelite", "Israel", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Hebrew ישראלי (jiśrəʾēlî). By surface analysis, Israel + -i. Usage as a synonym for "Modern Israeli Hebrew" was popularized by Ghil'ad Zuckermann. 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 Israeli, spelled I-S-R-A-E-L-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.