vote

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for vote is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /vəʊt/. Corpus data places it at rank #820 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for vote, with forms such as "ovte", "voet", and "votte". 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, "vow", "vox", "votes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin vōtum, a form of voveō (“I vow”) (cognate with Ancient Greek εὔχομαι (eúkhomai, “to vow”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wegʷʰ- (“to promise, to vow”). Doublet of vow. 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 vote, spelled V-O-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.