though

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The English entry for though is 6 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ðəʊ/. Corpus data places it at rank #298 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 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 though, with forms such as "htough", "thhough", and "thoguh". 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, "thug", "touch", "tough", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English though, thogh, from Old Norse *þóh (later þó). Superseded (in most dialects) Middle English thegh, from Old English þēah (“though, although, even if, that, however, nevertheless, yet, still; whether”). Both the Old Norse and Old English … 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 though, spelled T-H-O-U-G-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.