response

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The English entry for response is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɹɪˈspɒns/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,000 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 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 response, with forms such as "ersponse", "repsonse", and "resopnse". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "responsive", "repose", "respond", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English respounse, respons, from Old French respons, respuns, responce, ultimately from the Latin respōnsum, a nominal use of the neuter form of respōnsus, the perfect passive participle of respondeō, from re (“again”) + spondeō (“promise”). Dou… 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 response, spelled R-E-S-P-O-N-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.