when-one-door-closes-another-opens
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "when-one-door-closes-another-opens", 34-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 "when-one-door-closes-another-opens" 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 "when-one-door-closes-another-opens" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
when one door closes, another opens is aEnglishproverb. It means: When one opportunity is lost, another opportunity soon becomes available.
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Browse all word comparisons →| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | when one door closes, another opens |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proverb |
| Letters | 35 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for when one door closes, another opens is 35 letters long, classified as aproverb. 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: "When one opportunity is lost, another opportunity soon becomes available.".
No misspelling variants are generated for when one door closes, another opens 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is when one door closes, another opens, spelled W-H-E-N- -O-N-E- -D-O-O-R- -C-L-O-S-E-S-,- -A-N-O-T-H-E-R- -O-P-E-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1When one opportunity is lost, another opportunity soon becomes available.
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