reputation

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The English entry for reputation is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,193 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "What somebody or something is known for.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for reputation, with forms such as "erputation", "repputation", and "reptuation". 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, "regulation", "repetition", "recitation", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: 14c. "credit, good reputation", from Middle English reputacion, reputacioun, reputation, reputatioun, from Anglo-Norman reputacion, reputacioun, Middle French reputation (French réputation), and their etymon Latin reputātiōnem (“consideration, thinking over… 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 reputation, spelled R-E-P-U-T-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.