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The English entry for job is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dʒɒb/. Corpus data places it at rank #296 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for job in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable English patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Jr", "Ju", "JV", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From the phrase jobbe of work (“piece of work”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of Middle English gobbe (“mass, lump”); or perhaps related to Middle English jobben (“to jab, thrust, peck”), or Middle English choppe (“piece, bargain”). More at g… 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 job, spelled J-O-B, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.