shunt

Where “shunt” sits in English frequency

Definition

1. 1
   To cause to move (suddenly), as by pushing or shoving; to give a (sudden) start to.
2. 2
   To divert to a less important place, position, or state.
3. 3
   To provide with a shunt.
4. 4
   To move data in memory to a physical disk.
5. 5
   To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.
6. 6
   To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages, etc. from one train to another.
7. 7
   To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.
8. 8
   To divert the flow of a body fluid.
9. 9
   To turn aside or away; to divert.
10. 10
    To carry on arbitrage between the London stock exchange and provincial stock exchanges.

Etymology

From Middle English schonten, schunten (“to jerk, swerve; to dodge, escape”), either: * possibly a back-formation from Middle English schonen (“to avoid, refuse, hate, fear”), from Old English sċunian, sċyniġan; see shun. Or * an alteration of Middle English *schunden, *schynden, from Old English sċyndan, sċendan (“to hasten, hurry”) (as in āsċyndan (“to remove, take away”), from Proto-West Germanic *skundijan, from Proto-Germanic *skundijaną (“to impel, hasten”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewt- (“to rattle, shake”). * from unrecorded Old English *sċunettan, a derivative of sċunian (“to shun, avoid”). As regards the noun sense, compare Middle English shunt (“swerve; sudden jerk”), derived from the verb.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: hsunt,shhunt,shnut,shunnt,shuntt,shutn,sshunt,suhnt

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of shunt - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

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