ticket
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "ticket", 6-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 "ticket" 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 "ticket" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
ticket is aEnglishnoun. It means: A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability. Pronounced /ˈtɪk.ɪt/. It ranks #2,468 in English word frequency. Often confused with ticks and tucker.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ticket |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtɪk.ɪt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for ticket is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈtɪk.ɪt/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,468 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 14 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 ticket, with forms such as "itcket", "tciket", and "ticcket". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "ticks", "tucker", "tinker", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Middle Scots tikkat, tikket, from Middle French etiquet m, estiquet m, and etiquette f, estiquette f (“a bill, note, label, ticket”), from Old French estechier, estichier, estequier (“to attach, stick”), (compare Picard estiquier (“to stick, p… 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 ticket, spelled T-I-C-K-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.
- 2A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.
- 3A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.
- 4A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.
- 5A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.
- 6A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.
- 7A citation for a traffic violation.
- 8A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled.
- 9A list of candidates for an election, or a particular theme to a candidate's manifesto.
- 10A small note or notice.
- 11A tradesman's bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket and eventually on tick).
- 12A label affixed to goods to show their price or description.
- 13A visiting card.
- 14A warrant.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Scots tikkat, tikket, from Middle French etiquet m, estiquet m, and etiquette f, estiquette f (“a bill, note, label, ticket”), from Old French estechier, estichier, estequier (“to attach, stick”), (compare Picard estiquier (“to stick, pierce”)), from Frankish *stikkjan, *stekan (“to stick, pierce, sting”), from Proto-Germanic *stikaną, *stikōną, *staikijaną (“to be sharp, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp, to stab”). Doublet of etiquette. More at stick.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: itcket,tciket,ticcket,ticekt,tickett,tickket,tickte,tikcet,tticket
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ticket
Misspelling Variants of "ticket"
Frequency rank: #2,468 in English
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