tandoori

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for tandoori is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /tænˈdʊɹi/. Corpus data places it at rank #62,558 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cooked in a tandoor.".

No misspelling variants are generated for tandoori in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns.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.

Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Hindustani तन्दूरी (tandūrī) / تندوری (tandūrī), from Classical Persian تنوری (tanūrī). 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 tandoori, spelled T-A-N-D-O-O-R-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.