vouch
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "vouch", 5-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Wiktionary, and usage frequency ranked against an open word-frequency list covering the top 100,000 English words. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "vouch" 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 "vouch" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
vouch is aEnglishverb. It means: To call on (someone) to be a witness to something. Pronounced /ˈvaʊt͡ʃ/. Often confused with voucher and VOC.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vouch |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈvaʊt͡ʃ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #24,635 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for vouch is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈvaʊt͡ʃ/. Corpus data places it at rank #24,635 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for vouch, with forms such as "ovuch", "vocuh", and "voucch". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "voucher", "VOC", "voice", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: The verb is derived from Middle English vouchen (“to call, summon; to provide; to make available, proffer; to affirm, declare formally”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman vocher, voucher, woucher, and Old French vocher, voucher, vochier (“to call, summon… 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 vouch, spelled V-O-U-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1To call on (someone) to be a witness to something.
- 2To cite or rely on (an authority, a written work, etc.) in support of one's actions or opinions.
- 3To affirm or warrant the correctness or truth of (something); also, to affirm or warrant (the truth of an assertion or statement).
- 4To bear witness or testify to the nature or qualities (of someone or something).
- 5To back, confirm, or support (someone or something) with credible evidence or proof.
- 6Synonym of vouchsafe (“to condescendingly or graciously give or grant (something)”).
- 7To assert, aver, or declare (something).
- 8In full vouch to warrant or vouch to warranty: to summon (someone) into court to establish a warranty of title to land.
- 9Followed by over: of a vouchee (a person summoned to court to establish a warranty of title): to summon (someone) to court in their place.
- 10To guarantee legal title (to something).
- 11Often followed by for.
- 12Often followed by for.
- 13Often followed by for.
Etymology
The verb is derived from Middle English vouchen (“to call, summon; to provide; to make available, proffer; to affirm, declare formally”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman vocher, voucher, woucher, and Old French vocher, voucher, vochier (“to call, summon; to claim; to call upon, invoke; to denounce”) [and other forms], from Vulgar Latin *vocicāre, derived from Latin vocāre (“to call, summon; to call upon, invoke; to designate, name; to bring or put (into a condition or state”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- (“to sound out; to speak”). Verb sense 8.1 (“to summon (someone) into court to establish a warranty of title to land”) in the form vouch to warrant or vouch to warranty is a calque from Anglo-Norman and Old French voucher a garant. The noun is derived from the verb.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ovuch,vocuh,voucch,vouchh,vouhc,vuoch,vvouch
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vouch
Misspelling Variants of "vouch"
Frequency rank: #24,635 in English
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