mosque

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The English entry for mosque is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /mɑsk/. Corpus data places it at rank #8,458 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A place of worship for Muslims, often having at least one minaret; a masjid.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for mosque, with forms such as "mmosque", "moqsue", and "mosqeu". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Mosul", "Moshe", "morgue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle French mosquée, from Italian moschea, ultimately from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid, literally “place of prostration”). Doublet of masjid. 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 mosque, spelled M-O-S-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.