judaism

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The English entry for Judaism is 7 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈd͡ʒuːˌdeɪ.ɪz.əm/. Corpus data places it at rank #13,372 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "An Abrahamic religion tracing its origin to the Hebrew people of the ancient Middle East, as documented in their religious writings, the Tanakh.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for Judaism, with forms such as "jduaism", "jjudaism", and "juadism". 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, "judas", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English Iudaisme, from Late Latin iūdaismus, from Ancient Greek Ἰουδαϊσμός (Ioudaïsmós), from Ῐ̓ουδαῖος (Ĭoudaîos) + -ισμός (-ismós), from Ἰουδά (Ioudá) + -ιος (-ios), from Biblical Hebrew יְהוּדָה (Yəhūḏā(h), “Judah”). Doublet of Judezmo. 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 Judaism, spelled J-U-D-A-I-S-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.