pentagram

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The English entry for pentagram is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈpɛn.təˌɡɹæm/. Corpus data places it at rank #48,408 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The shape of a five-pointed star constructed of five intersecting lines meeting at the vertices, such that a central pentagon and five surrounding isosceles triangles are formed; often with magical...".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for pentagram, with forms such as "epntagram", "penatgram", and "penntagram". 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: From Ancient Greek πεντάγραμμον (pentágrammon), noun form of the adjectives πεντάγραμμος (pentágrammos) and πεντέγραμμος (pentégrammos, “five-lined, having five lines”). Equivalent to penta- + -gram. 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 pentagram, spelled P-E-N-T-A-G-R-A-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.