reginald

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The English entry for Reginald is 8 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɹɛd͡ʒɪnəld/. Corpus data places it at rank #23,378 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A male given name from the Germanic languages derived from a Latinized form of Reynold.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for Reginald, with forms such as "erginald", "regginald", and "regianld". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "retinal", "regional", "regina", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin Reginaldus, Latinization of names deriving from Proto-Germanic *Raginawaldaz. 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 Reginald, spelled R-E-G-I-N-A-L-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.