what-s-your-poison
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "what-s-your-poison", 18-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 "what-s-your-poison" 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 "what-s-your-poison" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
what's your poison is aEnglishphrase. It means: Used to someone what alcoholic beverage they would like to drink: what drink would you like to have? Pronounced /ˌwɒts jə ˈpɔɪz(ə)n/.
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|---|---|
| Headword | what's your poison |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /ˌwɒts jə ˈpɔɪz(ə)n/ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for what's your poison is 18 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌwɒts jə ˈpɔɪz(ə)n/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Used to someone what alcoholic beverage they would like to drink: what drink would you like to have?".
No misspelling variants are generated for what's your poison in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From poison (“(informal) intoxicating drink; liquor”), from the fact that such beverages are toxic to the human body. 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 what's your poison, spelled W-H-A-T-'-S- -Y-O-U-R- -P-O-I-S-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Used to someone what alcoholic beverage they would like to drink: what drink would you like to have?
Etymology
From poison (“(informal) intoxicating drink; liquor”), from the fact that such beverages are toxic to the human body.
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