ouija-board
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "ouija-board", 11-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Wiktionary, and usage frequency ranked against an open word-frequency list covering the top 100,000 English words. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "ouija-board" 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 "ouija-board" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
Ouija board is aEnglishnoun. It means: A tabletop model of the individual aircraft and their locations on a carrier. Pronounced /ˈwiːd͡ʒə bɔɹd/.
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Browse all word comparisons →| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ouija board |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈwiːd͡ʒə bɔɹd/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for Ouija board is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈwiːd͡ʒə bɔɹd/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Ouija board in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns.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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is Ouija board, spelled O-U-I-J-A- -B-O-A-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A tabletop model of the individual aircraft and their locations on a carrier.
- 2Synonym of Ouija (“a board used to try to communicate with spirits”).
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