lexicon

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The English entry for lexicon is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈlɛk.sɪ.kən/. Corpus data places it at rank #25,453 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for lexicon, with forms such as "elxicon", "leixcon", and "lexcion". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "legion", "lesion", "lexical", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Through Middle French or directly from New Latin lexicon, from Byzantine Greek λεξικόν (lexikón, “a lexicon, a dictionary”), ellipsis from Ancient Greek λεξικὸν βιβλίον (lexikòn biblíon, literally “a book of words”), from λεξικός (lexikós, “of words”), from… 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 lexicon, spelled L-E-X-I-C-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.