talent

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The English entry for talent is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈtælənt/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,318 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for talent, with forms such as "atlent", "taelnt", and "talennt". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "tent", "tales", "Trent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English talent, from Old English talente, borrowed from the plural of Latin talentum (“a Grecian weight; a talent of money”), from Ancient Greek τάλαντον (tálanton, “balance, a particular weight, especially of gold, sum of money, a talent”). Com… 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 talent, spelled T-A-L-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.