mason

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The English entry for mason is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈmeɪsən/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,709 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 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for mason, with forms such as "amson", "maosn", and "masno". 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, "mon", "MSN", "mass", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English masoun, machun, from Anglo-Norman machun, masson, Old French maçon, from Late Latin maciō (“carpenter, bricklayer”), from Frankish *makjō (“maker, builder”), a derivative of Frankish *makōn (“to work, build, make”), from Proto-Indo-Europ… 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 mason, spelled M-A-S-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.