starter
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "starter", 7-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 "starter" 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 "starter" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
starter is aEnglishnoun. It means: Someone who starts, or who starts something. Pronounced /ˈstɑː.tə(ɹ)/. It ranks #6,963 in English word frequency. Often confused with state and states.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | starter |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈstɑː.tə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,963 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for starter is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈstɑː.tə(ɹ)/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,963 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for starter, with forms such as "satrter", "sstarter", and "staretr". 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, "state", "states", "stated", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From start + -er. 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 starter, spelled S-T-A-R-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Someone who starts, or who starts something.
- 2Someone who starts, or who starts something.
- 3Someone who starts, or who starts something.
- 4Someone who starts, or who starts something.
- 5Something that starts something.
- 6Something that starts something.
- 7Something that starts something.
- 8Something with which to begin; a first property, etc.
- 9The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
- 10A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
- 11A dog that rouses game.
- 12A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy.
- 13Ellipsis of starter signal.
Etymology
From start + -er.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: satrter,sstarter,staretr,starrter,starterr,startre,startter,statrer,strater,sttarter,tsarter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for starter
Misspelling Variants of "starter"
Frequency rank: #6,963 in English
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