magazine
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "magazine", 8-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "magazine" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "magazine" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
magazine is aEnglishnoun. It means: A nonacademic, periodical publication which consists of articles by multiple writers on some broad topic or theme. Pronounced /mæɡ.əˈziːn/. It ranks #1,869 in English word frequency. Often confused with magazines and margarine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | magazine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mæɡ.əˈziːn/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,869 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for magazine is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /mæɡ.əˈziːn/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,869 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for magazine, with forms such as "amgazine", "maagzine", and "magaizne". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "magazines", "margarine", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Arabic خَزَنَ (ḵazana)der. Arabic مَخْزَن (maḵzan) Arabic مَخَازِن (maḵāzin)bor. Italian magazzinoder. Middle French magasinder. Middle English magasyne English magazine From Middle English magasyne, from Middle French magasin (“warehouse, st… 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 magazine, spelled M-A-G-A-Z-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A nonacademic, periodical publication which consists of articles by multiple writers on some broad topic or theme.
- 2A nonacademic, periodical publication which consists of articles by multiple writers on some broad topic or theme.
- 3An ammunition storehouse.
- 4An ammunition storehouse.
- 5A chamber in or attachable to a firearm enabling multiple rounds of ammunition to be fed into the firearm.
- 6A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
- 7A country or district especially rich in natural products.
- 8A city viewed as a marketing center.
- 9A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.
- 10A collection of Teletext pages.
Etymology
Etymology tree Arabic خَزَنَ (ḵazana)der. Arabic مَخْزَن (maḵzan) Arabic مَخَازِن (maḵāzin)bor. Italian magazzinoder. Middle French magasinder. Middle English magasyne English magazine From Middle English magasyne, from Middle French magasin (“warehouse, store”), from Italian magazzino (“storehouse”), ultimately from Arabic مَخَازِن pl (maḵāzin), plural of مَخْزَن (maḵzan, “storeroom, storehouse”), noun of place from خَزَنَ (ḵazana, “to store, to stock, to lay up”). First attested in the 1580s.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amgazine,maagzine,magaizne,magazien,magazinne,magaznie,magazzine,maggazine,magzaine,mgaazine,mmagazine
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for magazine
Misspelling Variants of "magazine"
Frequency rank: #1,869 in English
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