send

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The English entry for send is 4 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /sɛnd/. Corpus data places it at rank #817 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for send, with forms such as "esnd", "sedn", and "sendd". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "set", "son", "sex", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English senden, from Old English sendan (“to send, cause to go”), from Proto-West Germanic *sandijan, from Proto-Germanic *sandijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sont-eye- (“to cause to go”), causative of *sent- (“to walk, travel”). The noun deriv… 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 send, spelled S-E-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.