record
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "record", 6-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 "record" 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 "record" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
record is aEnglishnoun. It means: An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium. Pronounced /ˈɹɛk.ɔːd/. It ranks #625 in English word frequency. Often confused with recur and report.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | record |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɹɛk.ɔːd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for record is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɹɛk.ɔːd/. Corpus data places it at rank #625 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for record, with forms such as "ercord", "rceord", and "reccord". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "recur", "report", "reform", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English recorde, borrowed from Old French record, from recorder. See record. 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 record, spelled R-E-C-O-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.
- 2Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making it available for future reference.
- 3Ellipsis of phonograph record (“a disc, usually made from vinyl, on which sound is recorded and may be replayed on a phonograph”).
- 4A set of data relating to a single individual or item.
- 5A data structure similar to a struct, in some programming languages such as C and Java based on classes and designed for storing immutable data.
- 6The most extreme known value of some variable, particularly that of an achievement in competitive events.
Etymology
From Middle English recorde, borrowed from Old French record, from recorder. See record.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ercord,rceord,reccord,recodr,recordd,recorrd,recrod,reocrd,rrecord
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for record
Misspelling Variants of "record"
Frequency rank: #625 in English
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