thomas

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The English entry for Thomas is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈtɒm.əs/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,544 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "An infidel or doubter.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Thomas, with forms such as "htomas", "thhomas", and "thmoas". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "toma", "Tombs", "Tomes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English Thomas, from Latin Thōmās m (as in the Vulgate), from Ancient Greek Θωμᾶς m (Thōmâs), the Biblical Greek transcription of Aramaic תאומא or תאמא (“twin”), the nickname of one of the Twelve Apostles. In the gospel of John (11:16,… 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 Thomas, spelled T-H-O-M-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.