mentor

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The English entry for mentor is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈmɛn.tɔː/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,940 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A wise and trusted counselor or teacher.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for mentor, with forms such as "emntor", "menntor", and "menotr". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "minor", "motor", "meter", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From French mentor, from Ancient Greek Μέντωρ (Méntōr, “Mentor”), a mythological character in the Odyssey, whose name, a historical name from Ancient Greece, shares the same root as English mind. Cognate to Sanskrit मन्तृ (mantṛ, “advisor, counselor”) and L… 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 mentor, spelled M-E-N-T-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.