ration

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The English entry for ration is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɹæʃən/. Corpus data places it at rank #23,374 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A portion of some limited resource, especially food, allocated to a person or group.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for ration, with forms such as "artion", "raiton", and "rasion". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "rayon", "region", "rattan", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From French ration. Doublet of reason and ratio. 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 ration, spelled R-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.