recommend

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The English entry for recommend is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌɹɛkəˈmɛnd/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,459 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for recommend, with forms such as "ercommend", "rceommend", and "reccommend". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "recommended", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English recommenden, from Old French recommender (compare French recommander), from Latin re- + commendāre (“to commend, commit; to recommend”), from con- + mandāre (“commit, intrust, enjoin”), from manus (“hand, handwriting, power”) + dare (“to… 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 recommend, spelled R-E-C-O-M-M-E-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.