lagoon

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The English entry for lagoon is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ləˈɡuːn/. Corpus data places it at rank #16,511 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A shallow body of water separated from deeper sea by a bar.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for lagoon, with forms such as "algoon", "laggoon", and "lagon". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "loon", "Lagos", "legion", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French lagune, from Italian laguna, from Latin lacuna. Related to Old English lagu via Proto-Indo-European. Doublet of lacuna and lacune. 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 lagoon, spelled L-A-G-O-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.