tithe

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The English entry for tithe is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /taɪð/. Corpus data places it at rank #33,884 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for tithe, with forms such as "itthe", "tihte", and "titeh". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tits", "tito", "tote", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English tithe, tythe, tethe, from Old English tēoþa, tēoða, teogoþa (in verb senses via Middle English tithen, tythen, tethen, from Old English tēoþian, teogoþian), from a proposed Proto-Germanic *tehunþô, *tehundô (“a tenth”), with its nasal co… 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 tithe, spelled T-I-T-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.