order
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "order", 5-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "order" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "order" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
order is aEnglishnoun. It means: Arrangement, disposition, or sequence. Pronounced /ˈɔː.də/. It ranks #307 in English word frequency. Often confused with ore and Orr.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | order |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɔː.də/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #307 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for order is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɔː.də/. Corpus data places it at rank #307 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 26 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for order, with forms such as "odrer", "ordder", and "orderr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ore", "Orr", "over", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English ordre, from Old French ordre, ordne, ordene (“order, rank”), from Latin ōrdinem, accusative of ōrdō (“row, rank, regular arrangement”, literally “row of threads in a loom”), from Proto-Italic *ordō (“to arrange”), probably ultimately fro… 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 order, spelled O-R-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
- 2A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
- 3The state of being well arranged.
- 4Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
- 5A command.
- 6A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
- 7A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles.
- 8An association of knights.
- 9Any group of people with common interests.
- 10A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity.
- 11A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
- 12A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort.
- 13An ecclesiastical rank or position, usually for the sake of ministry, (especially, when plural) holy orders.
- 14The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (since the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural design.
- 15The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
- 16Scale: size or scope.
- 17A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
- 18The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
- 19The number of elements contained within (the given object); formally, the cardinality (of the given object).
- 20The smallest positive natural number n such that (denoting the group operation multiplicatively) gⁿ is the identity element of G, if such an n exists; if no such n exists the element is said to be of infinite order (or sometimes zero order).
- 21The number of vertices in the graph (i.e. the set-theoretic order of the set of vertices of the graph).
- 22A partially ordered set.
- 23The relation with which a partially ordered set is equipped.
- 24The sum of the exponents of the variables involved in the expression.
- 25The order of the leading monomial; (equivalently) the largest power of the variable involved in the given expression.
- 26A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; compare money order, postal order.
Etymology
From Middle English ordre, from Old French ordre, ordne, ordene (“order, rank”), from Latin ōrdinem, accusative of ōrdō (“row, rank, regular arrangement”, literally “row of threads in a loom”), from Proto-Italic *ordō (“to arrange”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂or-d-, from *h₂er-. Related to Latin ōrdior (“begin”, literally “begin to weave”). In sense “request for purchase”, compare bespoke. Doublet of ordo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: odrer,ordder,orderr,ordre,oredr,orrder,roder
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for order
Misspelling Variants of "order"
Frequency rank: #307 in English
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