request

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for request is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɹɪˈkwɛst/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,801 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for request, with forms such as "erquest", "reqeust", and "reqquest". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "requests", "requested", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English request, from Old French requeste (French requête), from Vulgar Latin *requaesita, from Latin requīsīta, feminine of requīsītus (“requested, demanded”), past participle of requīrō (“require, ask”), composed of re- + quaerō (“to seek, loo… 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 request, spelled R-E-Q-U-E-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.