sodom

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The English entry for Sodom is 5 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsɒ.dəm/. Corpus data places it at rank #34,692 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sodom, with forms such as "osdom", "sdoom", and "soddom". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "som", "soon", "solo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Partially from Old English Sodome, Sodoma, partially from Ancient Greek Σόδομα (Sódoma), from the Biblical Hebrew סְדֹם (s'dóm). (Wadham College): Chosen for the rhyme. 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 Sodom, spelled S-O-D-O-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.