nematode

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for nematode is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈnɛm.ə.təʊd/. Corpus data places it at rank #48,918 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A worm of the large phylum Nematoda, such as a roundworm or threadworm.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for nematode, with forms such as "enmatode", "neamtode", and "nemaotde". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from translingual Nematoda, from Ancient Greek νηματώδης (nēmatṓdēs, “fibrous, in filaments”), from νῆμα (nêma, “thread, yarn”) + -ώδης (-ṓdēs, “-like”). 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 nematode, spelled N-E-M-A-T-O-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.