receipt
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "receipt", 7-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 "receipt" 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 "receipt" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
receipt is aEnglishnoun. It means: The act of receiving, or the fact of having been received. Pronounced /ɹɪˈsiːt/. It ranks #8,079 in English word frequency. Often confused with Recep and recent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | receipt |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹɪˈsiːt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for receipt is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɹɪˈsiːt/. Corpus data places it at rank #8,079 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for receipt, with forms such as "erceipt", "rceeipt", and "recceipt". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Recep", "recent", "recipe", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English receyt, recorded since c. 1386 as "statement of ingredients in a potion or medicine," from Anglo-Norman or Old Northern French receite (“receipt, recipe”) (1304), altered (by influence of receit (“he receives”), from Latin recipit) from … 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 receipt, spelled R-E-C-E-I-P-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1The act of receiving, or the fact of having been received.
- 2The fact of having received a blow, injury etc.
- 3A quantity or amount received; takings.
- 4A written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received.
- 5(A piece of) evidence, documentation, etc. to prove one's past actions, accomplishments, etc.
- 6(A piece of) evidence (e.g. documentation or screen captures) of past wrongdoing.
- 7A recipe, instructions, prescription.
- 8A receptacle.
- 9A revenue office.
- 10Reception, as an act of hospitality.
- 11Capability of receiving; capacity.
- 12A recess; a retired place.
Etymology
From Middle English receyt, recorded since c. 1386 as "statement of ingredients in a potion or medicine," from Anglo-Norman or Old Northern French receite (“receipt, recipe”) (1304), altered (by influence of receit (“he receives”), from Latin recipit) from Old French recete, from Latin receptus, perfect passive participle of recipiō, itself from re- (“back”) + capiō (“I take”). The unpronounced p was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root. Doublet of recept and recipe. False cognate of Persian رسید (resid) (whence Urdu رسید (rasīd)).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erceipt,rceeipt,recceipt,receippt,receiptt,receitp,recepit,reciept,reecipt,rreceipt
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for receipt
Misspelling Variants of "receipt"
Frequency rank: #8,079 in English
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