take-down
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "take-down", 9-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 "take-down" 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 "take-down" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
take down is aEnglishverb. It means: To remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed.
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Browse all word comparisons →| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | take down |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for take down is 9 letters long, classified as averb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for take down in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable English patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is take down, spelled T-A-K-E- -D-O-W-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1To remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed.
- 2To remove something from a hanging position.
- 3To remove something from a website.
- 4To write down as a note, especially to record something spoken.
- 5To remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding.
- 6To lower an item of clothing without removing it.
- 7To arrest someone or to place them in detention.
- 8To swallow.
- 9To defeat; to destroy or kill (a person).
- 10To force one’s opponent off their feet in order to transition from striking to grappling in jujitsu, mixed martial arts, etc.
- 11To collapse or become incapacitated from illness or fatigue.
- 12To reduce.
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