klein

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The English entry for Klein is 5 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /klaɪn/. Corpus data places it at rank #11,059 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A surname from German, equivalent to English Small.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Klein, with forms such as "kelin", "kklein", and "kleinn". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "ken", "kin", "kei", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from German Klein. 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 Klein, spelled K-L-E-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.