muslim

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The English entry for Muslim is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈmʊz.lɪm/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,168 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A person who is a follower and believer of Islam.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Muslim, with forms such as "mmuslim", "msulim", and "mulsim". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "muslin", "music", "museum", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed around 1615 from Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim, “one who submits”), the active participle of أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama, “he submitted”), verb form IV from the triliteral root س ل م (s l m), "to be whole, intact". The verbal noun إسْلام (ʔislām) means literally "s… 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 Muslim, spelled M-U-S-L-I-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.