register
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "register", 8-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 "register" 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 "register" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
register is aEnglishnoun. It means: A formal recording of names, events, transactions, etc. Pronounced /ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.stə/. It ranks #2,553 in English word frequency. Often confused with registry and resisted.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | register |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.stə/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,553 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for register is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.stə/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,553 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 18 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 register, with forms such as "ergister", "reggister", and "regisetr". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "registry", "resisted", "resistor", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Medieval Latin registrum, from Late Latin regesta (“list, items recorded”), from Latin regerō (“to record, to carry back”), from re- + gerō (“to carry, bear”). Compare Latin registoria (“a treasurer”). Some senses influenced by association with unrelat… 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 register, spelled R-E-G-I-S-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A formal recording of names, events, transactions, etc.
- 2A book of such entries.
- 3An entry in such a book.
- 4The act of registering.
- 5A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing the description of a vessel, its name, ownership, and other material facts. It is kept on board the vessel, to be used as evidence of nationality or as a muniment of title.
- 6One who registers or records; a registrar; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events.
- 7A distinct horizontal (or, more rarely, vertical) section of a work of art or inscription that is divided into several such sections.
- 8A device that automatically records a quantity.
- 9The part of a telegraphic apparatus that automatically records the message received.
- 10A list of received calls in a phone set.
- 11A small unit of very fast memory that is directly accessible to the central processing unit, and is mostly used to store inputs, outputs, or intermediate results of computations.
- 12The exact alignment of lines, margins, and colors.
- 13The inner part of the mould in which types are cast.
- 14The range of a voice or instrument.
- 15An organ stop.
- 16A style of a language used in a particular context.
- 17A grille at the outflow of a ventilation duct, capable of being opened and closed to direct the air flow.
- 18Ellipsis of cash register.
Etymology
From Medieval Latin registrum, from Late Latin regesta (“list, items recorded”), from Latin regerō (“to record, to carry back”), from re- + gerō (“to carry, bear”). Compare Latin registoria (“a treasurer”). Some senses influenced by association with unrelated Latin regō (“to rule”).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ergister,reggister,regisetr,regisster,registerr,registre,registter,regitser,regsiter,reigster,rgeister,rregister
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for register
Misspelling Variants of "register"
Frequency rank: #2,553 in English
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