splint

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The English entry for splint is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /splɪnt/. Corpus data places it at rank #43,933 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for splint, with forms such as "pslint", "slpint", and "spilnt". 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, "split", "stint", "spring", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English splint, splent, splente, from Middle Low German splinte, splente or Middle Dutch splint, splinte. Cognate with Old High German splinza (“bar, bolt, latch”). All ultimately from Proto-Germanic *splintǭ, *splintō (“piece of wood, splinter”… 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 splint, spelled S-P-L-I-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.