maple

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The English entry for maple is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈmeɪpəl/. Corpus data places it at rank #8,822 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for maple, with forms such as "malpe", "mapel", and "maplle". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mile", "mate", "maps", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English mapel, from Old English *mapul (attested in mapultrēow and mapulder), from Proto-West Germanic *mapul. See also Old Saxon mapulder, Old High German mazaltra, mazzaltra; also Old Norse mǫpurr, Middle Low German mapeldorn, dialectal Dutch … 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 maple, spelled M-A-P-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.