schedule
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "schedule", 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 "schedule" 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 "schedule" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
schedule is aEnglishnoun. It means: A procedural plan, usually but not necessarily tabular in nature, indicating a sequence of operations and the planned times at which those operations are to occur. Pronounced /ˈʃɛd͡ʒuːl/. It ranks #2,178 in English word frequency. Often confused with scheduled and scheduler.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schedule |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈʃɛd͡ʒuːl/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for schedule is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈʃɛd͡ʒuːl/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,178 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 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 schedule, with forms such as "cshedule", "scchedule", and "scehdule". 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, "scheduled", "scheduler", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English cedule, from Middle French cedule (whence French cédule), from Old French cedule, from Late Latin schedula (“papyrus strip”), diminutive of Latin scheda, from Ancient Greek σχέδη (skhédē, “papyrus leaf”), from Proto-Hellenic *s… 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 schedule, spelled S-C-H-E-D-U-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A procedural plan, usually but not necessarily tabular in nature, indicating a sequence of operations and the planned times at which those operations are to occur.
- 2A serial record of items, systematically arranged.
- 3A written or printed table of information, often forming an annex or appendix to a statute or other regulatory instrument, or to a legal contract.
- 4A written or printed table of information, often forming an annex or appendix to a statute or other regulatory instrument, or to a legal contract.
- 5A written or printed table of information, often forming an annex or appendix to a statute or other regulatory instrument, or to a legal contract.
- 6An allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources.
- 7A slip of paper; a short note.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English cedule, from Middle French cedule (whence French cédule), from Old French cedule, from Late Latin schedula (“papyrus strip”), diminutive of Latin scheda, from Ancient Greek σχέδη (skhédē, “papyrus leaf”), from Proto-Hellenic *skʰíďďō, from Proto-Indo-European *skid-yé-ti, from *skeyd- (“to divide, split”). Doublet of cedula and cedule. This word was historically pronounced /ˈsɛdjuːl/, /ˈsɛdʒuːl/; the pronunciations with /ʃ/ and /sk/ are due to the spelling (the latter may have been reinforced by learned influence); compare schism.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cshedule,scchedule,scehdule,schdeule,scheddule,schedlue,scheduel,schedulle,scheudle,schhedule,shcedule,sschedule
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for schedule
Misspelling Variants of "schedule"
Frequency rank: #2,178 in English
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