sarcophagi

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The English entry for sarcophagi is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /sɑːˈkɒfəɡaɪ/. Corpus data places it at rank #83,710 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "plural of sarcophagus".

No misspelling variants are generated for sarcophagi in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin sarcophagī, from sarcophagus + -ī (suffix denoting the nominative or vocative plural form of a word ending in -us). 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 sarcophagi, spelled S-A-R-C-O-P-H-A-G-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.