message

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The English entry for message is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈmɛs.ɪd͡ʒ/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,089 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for message, with forms such as "emssage", "mesage", and "mesasge". 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, "messages", "massage", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English message, from Old French message, from Early Medieval Latin missāticum, derived from Latin mittere (“send”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to exchange”). Partially displaced Old English ærende (whence errand). 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 message, spelled M-E-S-S-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.