Correct

Definition: Correct

Correct

Adjective

1. Free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth; "the correct answer"; "the correct version"; "the right answer"; "took the right road"; "the right decision".

2. Socially right or correct; "it isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye"; "correct behavior".

3. In accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure; "what's the right word for this?"; "the right way to open oysters".

4. Correct in opinion or judgment; "time proved him right".

Verb

1. Make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes".

2. Make reparations or amends for; "right a wrong".

3. Censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks".

4. Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience; "The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "correct" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Slang

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Correct

Disapprobation

Reprehend, chide, admonish; berate, betongue; bring to account, call to account, call over the coals, rake over the coals, call to order; take to task, reprove, lecture, bring to book; read a lesson, read a lecture to; rebuke, correct.

Disclosure

Raise the mask, drop the mask, lift the mask, remove the mask, throw off the mask; expose; lay open; undeceive, unbeguile; disabuse, set right, correct, open the eyes of; d_sillusionner.

Dueness

Fitting; correct, proper, meet, befitting, becoming, seemly; decorous; creditable, up to the mark, right as a trivet; just the thing, quite the thing; selon les r

Elegance

Adjective: elegant, polished, classical, Attic, correct, Ciceronian, artistic; chaste, pure, Saxon, academical.

Improvement

Render better, improve, mend, amend, better; ameliorate, meliorate; correct; decrassify.

Information

Undeceive, unbeguile; set right, correct, open the eyes of, disabuse, disillusion one of.

Order

Adjective: orderly, regular; in order,in trim, in apple-pie order, in its proper place; neat, tidy, en regle, well regulated, correct, methodical, uniform, symmetrical, shipshape, businesslike, systematic; unconfused; (see confuse; ); arranged.

Probity

Conscientious, tender-conscienced, right-minded; high-principled, high-minded; scrupulous, religious, strict; nice, punctilious, correct, punctual; respectable, reputable; gentlemanlike.

Punishment

Verb: punish; chastise, chasten; castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice; cowhide, lambaste.

Restoration

Make whole, redintegrate; recoup; make good, make all square; rectify, correct; put right, put to rights, set right, set to rights, set straight; set up; put in order; (arrange); refit, recruit; fill up, fill up the ranks; reinforce.

Truth

Adjective: real, actual; (existing); veritable, true; right, correct; certain; substantially true, categorically true, definitively true; true to the letter, true as gospel; unimpeachable; veracious; unreconfuted, unconfuted; unideal, unimagined; realistic.

Virtue

Adjective: virtuous, good; innocent; meritorious, deserving, worthy, desertful, correct; dutiful, duteous; moral; right, righteous, right-minded; well-intentioned, creditable, laudable, commendable, praiseworthy; above all praise, beyond all praise; excellent, admirable; sterling, pure, noble; whole-souled.

Crosswords: Correct

Dutch (correct, right), French (aboveboard, accurate, alright, correct, faultless, flawless, prim, proper, reasonable, seemly, unfailing).

There's just something about an anatomically correct rubber suit that puts fire in a girl's lips (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

Correct, that's just what he is too. He's a circus mouse (The Green Mile; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

That's not correct. Where'd you hear that (The Sixth Sense; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

Where would we be if we didn't follow the correct procedures (Brazil; writing credit: Terry Gilliam; Charles McKeown)

I'm not sure, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I see a nipple (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

We're sick and tired of being politically correct (Peaceful World; performing artist: John Mellencamp; writing credit: John Mellencamp)

That the chemistry's correct (Spiderwebs; performing artist: No Doubt)

I ain't gonna act politically correct (Man! I Feel Like A Woman!; performing artist: SHANIA TWAIN)

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Politiquement correct (1999)

Politically Correct (1993)

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Books

• Better IEPs : How to Develop Legally Correct and Educationally Useful Programs (reference)

• Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats (reference)

• Politically Correct Holiday Stories for an Enlightened Yuletide Season (reference)

• The Louisville Slugger® Complete Book of Hitting Faults and Fixes : How to Detect and Correct the 50 Most Common Mistakes at the Plate (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• National Correct Coding Policy Manual : Medicine Evaluation And Management Services Chapter 11 (reference)

• Correct Coding Initiative (reference)

• Laboratory Correct Coding Initiative (reference)

• National Correct Coding Manual (reference)

• Radiology Correct Coding Initiative (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• You Can Teach Hitting Vol. 2: Ten Common Hitting Mistakes and How to Correct Them (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Comin' Correct (reference)

• Get Ya Mind Correct (reference)

• The Correct Use of Soap (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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After NASA Hubble Space Telescope's refurbishment to correct spherical aberration, its ... Credit: NASA.

Chief Boatswain Joe Dimartino instructing winch operators during CTD operations CTD - Conductivity, Temperature, Depth measurements MT. MITCHELL CTD's used to determine ocean sound velocity structure Sound velocity information used to correct soundings In support of bathymetric mapping operations. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Captain A. Theberge and Lt. Mike Abbott discuss ship-handling during CTD's Chief Boatswain Joe Dimartino watches over winch operator during CTD operations CTD - Conductivity, Temperature, Depth measurements MT. MITCHELL CTD's used to determine ocean sound velocity structure Sound velocity information used to correct soundings during bathymetric mapping. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

An early example of Coast Survey Notice to Mariners. This newspaper clipping was pasted in: "The American Light-house Guide with Sailing Directions" by Robert Mills, 1845. The notice, dated August 16, 1848 was meant to update and correct information on Nantucket Shoals. Library Call Number VK1022.M65 1845. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

The correct way to plant most trees or shrubs is to dig a hole about twice as wide in diameter as the potted plant. Credit: Lynn Betts.

[A tree bound to a stake in an effort to correct the curvature of the trunk]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Instruments and apparatus to correct medical conditions] AB. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Sinking at Ulithi, 20 November 1944. The capsized ship's bottom can be seen at the base of the flames, with bow or stern toward the left. NOTE: Identification provided above is provisional. The original caption reads: " Casualty at Iwo Jima -- While the battle raged ashore, a U.S. Tanker goes up in flame and smoke as the result of enemy action." The identity of this ship, if lost at Iwo Jima, is unknown. However, the circumstances seen in the photo appear to be correct for the loss of USS Mississinewa. The presence of many anchored cargo ships and oilers, plus the several fleet tugs and salvage ships, looks more like Ulithi than Iwo Jima. Credit: NAVY.

A correct chart of Salt River. Credit: Library of Congress.

Week-ends can be fully enjoyed in our new models : beautiful weaves -- correct everyway. Credit: Library of Congress.

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She will be disagreeable in infancy, and correct herself as she grows older

This of course would be very unfair on A, though a correct solution under the given conditions

Twelve! He touched the spring of his repeater, to correct this most preposterous clock

Javert made all these blunders, and yet he was none the less one of the wisest and most correct detectives that ever existed

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Health

The young woman's memory was correct. (references)

This assumption may not be entirely correct. (references)

By talking openly, you can correct mistaken ideas about cancer. (references)

Business

However, all totals are correct. (references)

If the documents filed are correct the application is registered. (references)

It is the lessor who must ensure correct repairs or even replacement of the equipment, if necessary. (references)

Civil Liberties

Moldova

Local human rights organizations charge that the Government failed to follow correct procedures in this case. (references)

Egypt

The Court ruled that the correct standard of responsibility should be "negligence." The courts subsequently have applied this lesser standard. (references)

Moldova

Evangelical religious groups meeting in private homes have been told that they do not have the correct permits to use their residences as churches. (references)

Economic History

Afghanistan

GDP: $3 billion (1991 est.) and may well be correct. (references)

Mongolia

Today, relations between Mongolia and China are correct. (references)

Indonesia

Consequently, the first choice has to be the correct choice. (references)

Human Rights

Indonesia

MPR officials announced that the police followed correct procedures. (references)

Georgia

Correct legal procedures were observed more often once a detainee was charged and registered formally. (references)

Taiwan

Women's and children's human rights groups monitor police and judicial performance and campaign to correct abuses. (references)

Political Economy

CZECH REPUBLIC

Training efforts are underway to correct the situation and address these concerns. (references)

Oman

Oman and Iran maintain correct political relations, and have limited economic interaction, as is the case with Iraq. (references)

Colombia

His administration has worked with the International Monetary Fund to correct dangerous imbalances, obtaining passage of austere budgets for 2000 and 2001. Congress has passed a revenue-enhancing tax reform, and is a needed cap on revenue sharing ("territorial transfers") with departmental and local governments. (references)

Political Rights

Lebanon

Local observers reported that the elections were generally free and fair; however, there were some irregularities, including attempts by government agencies to pressure candidates and voters, the presence of unauthorized persons inside polling stations, and the absence of registration committees on voting day to correct errors in voters lists. (references)

Trade

Argentina

If the analysis is correct, the INV issues a Certificate of Free Circulation. (references)

Japan

Correct packing, marking, and labeling are critical to smooth customs clearance in Japan. (references)

Travel

Portugal

In terms of everyday business the Portuguese are correct and civil. (references)

Vietnam

This will allow the Vietnamese side to share and review information within the organization in order to ensure the correct people participate in the meeting. (references)

Ecuador

While consultations to correct the deficiencies are ongoing, any of Ecuador's air carriers with existing routes to the U.S. will be permitted to conduct limited operations to the U.S. subject to heightened FAA surveillance. (references)

Women

Jordan

Wife- battering technically is grounds for divorce, but a husband may seek to demonstrate that he has authority from the Koran to correct an irreligious or disobedient wife by striking her. (references)

Worker Rights

Macau

Failure to correct infractions can lead to prosecution. (references)

Malawi

The law protects foreign workers in correct legal status. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "correct": be correct ♦ correct a mistake ♦ correct answer ♦ correct conduct ♦ correct heat ♦ correct in form ♦ correct oneself ♦ correct size ♦ correct the press ♦ correct time ♦ dictionary of correct usage ♦ exact correct time ♦ make a correct valuation of smth. ♦ meticulously correct ♦ not quite correct ♦ pedagogically correct ♦ politically correct ♦ say the correct thing ♦ to correct. Additional references.

Beginning with "correct": correct-and, correct-speak, correct-word.

Ending with "correct": all-correct.

Afrikaans

reg (exact, jurisprudence, law, proper, right, true), juis (accurate, exact, precise, proper, right). (various references)

Albanian

rregulloj (accommodate, adjust, amend, arrange, attemper, clear up, compose, contrive, control, debug, dispose, dispose of, do, fix up, model, modulate, order, patch up, rate, readjust, redress, regularize, regulate, repair, set right, set the tune, settle, shape, Spruce, straighten, tidy up, trim), qortoj (admonish, berate, call down, carpet, castigate, chide, come down on, damn, decry, discommend, dish it out, knock, lecture, light into, Peck, pull up, rap, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scold, take to task, tell off, trim, twit, upbraid), ndreq (adjust, arrange, change, clear, dispose, dress, fix up, make amends, mend, piece, rectify, redress, refit, reform, reinstate, remake, remedy, repair, revise, spruce up, Square, straighten, tidy up, touch up, tune up), ndëshkoj (amerce, castigate, chastise, condemn, discipline, dish it out, give in, penalize, punish), luftoj (combat, contend, debate, dispute, fight, militate, oppugn, ramp, stand up for, strive, struggle, thrash about, war, wrestle), kuroj, korrigjoj (blue pencil, emend, make amends, re establish, readjust, rearrange, reclaim, rectify, red pencil, reform, repair, retouch, retrieve, straighten, vet), korrekt (above board, accurate, correctly, sportive, sportsmanlike, sporty), i saktë (accurate, clean-cut, clear-cut, close, definite, exact, explicit, express, just, literal, neat, painstaking, Pat, pithy, precise, pronounced, pure, right, strict, stringent, true, unexceptional, veracious), i rregullt (above board, done, even, formal, frequent, habitual, honest, just, licit, measured, neat, normal, on the level, orderly, regular, right, steady, systematic, systematical, tidy, trig, trim), i drejtë (candid, direct, disinterested, downright, equitable, erect, even, fair, impartial, just, kosher, lank, regular, right, Square, stand up, straight, straightaway, true, upright, upstanding, virtuous, white). (various references)

Arabic 

سَديد (healthy), ‏متفق (concordant, concurrent), ‏مستقيم (direct, erect, honest, right, stand up, straight, straightforward, through, upright), ‏مضبوط (accurate, all right, exact, ok, okay, okey, perfect, precise, proper, right, sound, valid), ‏لائق (becoming, comeliness, decent, decorous, fit, proper, qualified, seemly, suitable), ‏قوم (adjust, appraise, assess, calibrate, esteem, estimate, evaluate, folk, guess, horde, measure, nation, people, prize, rate, reckon, rectify, reform, straighten, value), ‏سديد (apropos, unerring), ‏عاقب (administer, blister, castigate, chasten, chastise, discipline, mete, paddle, penalize, punish, rap, recompense, strafe, suffer, trounce), ‏صحيح (accurate, alright, aright, be in the right, consonantal, entire, exact, faithful, hale, honest, indeed, ortho, plumb, precise, proper, pure, real, reasonable, regular, right, seemly, sincere, true, unbroken, valid, veracious, veritable, whole), ‏صحح (debug, edit, emend, mend, rectify, revise, right, subedit), ‏أدب (chasten, discipline, educate, good manners, letters, literature, propriety, school, seemliness, urbanity). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сверявам (check, rectify, regulate, synchronize), смекчавам (break down, chastise, cushion, extenuate, humanize, lighten, melt, mince, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palliate, qualify, quiet, retouch, season, smooth out, soften, subdue, tame, temper, turn, water down), точен (accurate, careful, exact, express, faithful, just, literal, minute, narrow, near, perfect, pinpoint, precise, precision, proper, punctual, refined, right, rigorous, scientific, sensitive, straight, strict, true, unerring, veracious, well-directed), коректен (precise, regular, scrupulous), коригирам (adjust, amend, rectify, red pencil), верен (accurate, faithful, just, liege, loving, loyal, natural, okay, right, staunch, steady, sure, true, true-hearted, truthful, unfailing, veracious), наказвам (amerce, castigate, chasten, discipline, pay out, penalize, punish, smite, sort out), мъмря (call down, caution, lecture, lesson, objurgate, rap, rebuke, reprimand, school, scold), правилен (accurate, good, just, normal, okay, proper, regular, right, straight, true), поправям (adjust, alter, amend, blue pencil, castigate, cobble, do up, doctor, emend, fix, fix up, mend, polish, recast, recondition, rectify, redeem, redress, remedy, renovate, repair, retouch, retrieve, revamp, revise, service, true, vamp), подходящ (adaptable, adequate, agreeable, answerable, apposite, appropriate, apt, becoming, congenial, congruent, congruous, convenient, correspondent, fit, fitting, germane, god given, likely, opportune, pointful, proper, propitious, sensible, suitable, suited, sympathetic, worthy), излекувам (cure, remedy). (various references)

Chinese 

韙 (right), 糾 (gather together, to entangle, to investigate), 端正 (proper, regular, upright), 然 (like this, -ly, right, so, thus), 匡 , 正確 (proper), 正确, 正 (Chinese 1st month of year, just, main, principle, straight, upright), 撥正 (set right), 對了 (right), 對 (couple, for, pair, right, to, to answer, to be opposite, to direct, to face, to oppose, to reply), 不錯 (not bad, pretty good, right). (various references)

Czech

správný (good, grammatical, just, precise, proper, regular, right, sporting), regulérní (regular), přesný (accurate, clean-cut, clear-cut, definite, exact, faithful, just, literal, nice, precise, punctual, right, specific, strict, subtle, true, truthful), opravit (amend, emend, fix, improve, mend, recondition, rectify, refit, renovate, repair, retouch, revise, touch up), napravit (make good, manipulate, put right, reclaim, redress, reform, remedy, repair, set, undo), korigovat (rectify, revise), korektní (above board, decorous, seemly, tactful). (various references)

Danish

rette (patch, read, to correct, to rectify), rigtig (exact, proper, right), korrigere (read, reposition, reset, to smooth, to smoothe). (various references)

Dutch

juist (accurate, exact, exactly, just, just now, okay, precise, proper, right, sharp, striking, true), goed (agreed, clothes, clothing, estate, exact, farm, fine, good, nice, OK, okay, possession, proper, property, ranch, right, very good, well), correct (right). (various references)

Esperanto

puni trafe (chastise, punish), korekti, korekta (right), ĝusta (exact, proper, right). (various references)

Estonian

õigel. (various references)

Faeroese

rætta. (various references)

Farsi 

تادیب کردن (Discipline), صحیح کردن , صحیح (Authentic, Exact, Good, Integral, Right, Safe, True, Valid), اصلاح کردن (Accommodate, Accord, Alter, Ameliorate, Emend, Improve, Modify, Reclaim, Remedy, Revise, Right), درست (Accurate, Authentic, Conscionable, Entire, Even, Exact, Genuine, Integral, Just, Legitimate, Orthodox, Outandout, Perfect, Plumb, Right, Smackdab, Sock, Sound, Straight, Straightforward, True, Trustworthy, Upright, Valid, Veracious, Whole). (various references)

Finnish

oikea (due, exact, genuine, just, proper, real, right, true), korjata (amend, do up, fix, harvest, mark, mend, put right, rectify, repair). (various references)

French

corriger (to correct), rectifier (to correct), correct. (various references)

German

richtig (accurate, affirmative, aright, correctly, duly, exact, fit, justly, proper, properly, quite, real, really, regular, right, rightly, thoroughly, true, unmitigated, unmitigatedly), korrigieren (adjust, alter, blue pencil, change, emend, grade, Mark, pick up, pull up, readjust, rectify, to correct, to emend), korrekt (aboveboard, civil, correctly, decent, proper, punctilious, punctiliously, respectable), berichtigen (adjust, amend, emend, rectify, regularize, regulate, to amend, to correct, to emend), verbessern (ameliorate, better, brighten, brighten up, emend, enhance, improve, pull up, rectify, refine, reform, strengthen, to ameliorate, to correct, to emend, to hone, to improve, to meliorate, to mend, to rectify, to reform, update, upgrade). (various references)

Greek 

διορθώνω (amend, emend, fix, mend, put right, rectify, refit, repair, to correct, touch up). (various references)

Hebrew 

מדויק (accurate, exact, precise, strict, unerring), נכון (clear, exact, just, o.k., prepared, proper, ready, right, sound, true). (various references)

Hungarian

korrekt (above board, aboveboard, clean, fair, fair and square, plain dealing, square, there are no flies on him, to feel cheap, white), helyes (appropriate, apt, compt, fitting, legitimate, nice, nice-looking, o.k., ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, Ortho, pertinent, proper, quite so, right, Roger, seemly, true, well). (various references)

Indonesian

cocok (acceptable, agree, appropriate, apt, befit, come true, compatible, corespond, jibe, like, palatable, pin, suit, suitable, tally), pelurusan (straighting of something), mencocokkan (calibrate, check, set right), membetuli (repair), betul (exact, fine, really, right, true). (various references)

Irish

ceart (right). (various references)

Italian

correggere (adjust, amend, correct oneself, edit, emend, mend, pep up, rectify, revise, straighten), corretto (faultless, flawless, honest, polite, proper, regular, right), giusto (all right, correctly, done, equitable, exact, exactly, fair, just, proper, right, righteous, rightful, sharp, sound, Square, suitable). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

匡 (assist, save), 正解　 (correct interpretation, right), 正解 (correct interpretation, right), 正しい　 (honest, just, right, righteous), 正しい (honest, just, perfect, proper, right, righteous, straightforward, truthful), 正則 (formal, normal, proper, regular, systematic), 佶 (healthy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ただしい (honest, just, perfect, proper, right, righteous, straightforward, truthful), きつ (healthy), きょう (all, and, as well as, assist, bad harvest, bad luck, both, Buddhist scriptures, coerce, co-operation, disaster, entertainment, evil, exposing, Hungary, including, interest, lance, long ages, neither, offer, pleasure, plural ending, present, save, serve, submit, supply, sutra, temporary home, this day, threat, threaten, today, together with, turmoil, wickedness, with), きち (already known, base, dangerous position, extraordinary wisdom, healthy, perception, peril, resources, tact, understanding, well-known, wit, your place), せいそく (formal, inhabiting, inhabitting, living, normal, proper, regular, systematic), せいかい (correct interpretation, political world, right, successful meeting). (various references)

Korean 

맞은 (Plentiful). (various references)

Luxembourgish

richteg. (various references)

Malay

betul (right), benar (right). (various references)

Manx

reajagh (discreet, orderly, smooth), kiart (accurate, concession, due, exact, just, level, orthodox, precise, prerogative, proper, pukka, right, thorough-paced, title, true, true real, undeviating), feer (authentic, exceptionally, extremely, pure, real, regular, sheer, sincere, true, truthful, veritable, very). (various references)

Norwegian

riktig (right). (various references)

Papiamen

korigí, korekto (right). (various references)

Pig Latin

orrectcay.(various references)

Polish

właściwy (exact, proper, right), poprawiać. (various references)

Portuguese

corrigir (amend, blue-pencil, break, chasten, emend, mend, reclaim, rectify, refine, reform, retouch, revise, set right, vet), correto (accurate, all right, anchored, clean-fingered, genteel, gentlemanlike, incorrupt, o.k., ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, proper, seemly, sportsmanlike, sporty, true), retificar (adjust, emend, rectify), preciso (accurate, clean-cut, clock-work, definite, determinate, even, exact, i need, must, necessary, needful, precise, precision, proper, required, requisite, specific, well-defined), exato (accurate, anchored, clean-cut, clean-fingered, clock-work, close, definite, determinate, even, exact, faithful, incorrupt, just, literal, mathematical, pinpoint, precise, precision, prompt, proper, punctual, rigourous, scrupulous, sharp, stringent, trustworthy, truthful, unerring, well-defined). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

correta. (various references)

Romanian

corect (accurate, aright, correctly, exact, fair, faultless, flawless, honest, just, justly, mensurable, perfect, precise, right, rightful, rightly, Square, upright), corecta (castigate, emend, improve, mend, read, reclaim, rectify, redress, review, revise, right), corespunzãtor (accordingly, adequate, answerable, commensurate, congenial, congruent, correspondent, corresponding, decent, equal, equivalent, fit, fitting, normal, reciprocal, relative, respondent, several, suitable), corija (better, mend), exact (accurate, accurately, by the square, careful, clean-cut, clipping, clockwork, dead, directly, due, even, exact, exactly, faithful, fitting, flat, for all the world, formal, just, just so, narrow, perfect, precise, precisely, proper, punctual, punctually, regular, right, rigorous, scholarly, sharp, slick, straight, strict, strictly, that's the idea, to a day, to a hair's breadth, true, truly, you've hit it), îngrijit (accurate, accurately, beautiful, careful, clean, groomed, neat, neatly, orderly, prim, tidy, trim, well groomed), adevãrat (actual, forsooth, genuine, honestly, in truth, indeed, positive, positively, proper, quite right, real, really and truly, regular, sheer, sooth, Square, stark, true, truthful, veraciously, veritable, very), îndrepta (aim, align, amend, bend, better, cast, chasten, direct, drive, guide, head for, improve, lead, mend, point at, reclaim, recover, redeem, redress, reduce, reform, remedy, right, send, set, shape, steer, straighten, tend, train, unbend), drept (as, attribution, claim, Dexter, direct, directly, due, end on, endways, equitable, erect, even, evenly, exactly, fair, fairly, for, forthright, honest, just, justice, justly, kind, law, legitimate, patent, permission, plain, point blank, precisely, privilege, real, reasonable, right, right foot, right leg, righteous, Square, stand, stand up, straight, straightforward, true, truly, truthful, unprejudiced, upright), regla (adjust, control, lay, rate, regulate, set, tune, tune in to), just (accurate, equitable, even, exact, fair, fairly, just, just so, justly, reasonable, right, righteous, rightful, Square, suitable, that's the thing, truly, uprightly), neutraliza (cancel, cancel out, negate, negative, neutralize), omenesc (clear, decent, fit, human, suitable), pedepsi (amerce, avenge, castigate, chasten, discipline, penalize, punish, scourge, serve out, trounce, wreak), potrivi (accommodate, accord, adapt, adjust, arrange, dovetail, fit, fit in, match, put, reconcile, rectify, register, regulate, reset, shape, smooth, Square, trim, trim in), potrivit (according, according to, adequate, ample, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, assorted, average, becoming, befitting, commensurate, condign, congenial, congruous, conservative, corresponding, decorous, due, duly, eligible, felicitous, fit, fitting, in point, likely, middling, moderate, moderately, opportune, Pat, proper, pursuant to, right, seemly, suitable, suited, to), rectifica (rectify, righten), dojeni (blame, chide, rebuke, remonstrate, reprehend, reprimand, reprove, scold, snub, taunt, trim, twit, upbraid, wig). (various references)

Russian 

правильный (accurate, exact, just, orderly, proper, regular, right, right-on, simple, true, valid, well-becoming, well-formed). (various references)

Scottish

ceart (certain : a cheart cho, justice, proper, propriety, quite as, right, righthand, same). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tačan (accurate, clean-cut, exact, just, pinpoint, precise, punctual, veracious), pravilan (legal, regular, right), popraviti (amend, chasten, doctor, emend, fix, improve, mend, overhaul, recline, recondition, redress, remedy, repair, straighten out), korigovati, korektan, ispravljati, ispravan (accurate, kosher, sound, upstanding). (various references)

Spanish

corregir (adjust, ameliorate, amend, blue pencil, edit, emend, impove, improve, proof, proofread, revise, right, sub-edit), correcto (accurate, just, proper, right, seemly), preciso (accurate, definite, exact, necessary, pinpoint, precise, proper, requisite, right). (various references)

Swahili

sahihi (right). (various references)

Swedish

rätta (accommodate, adjust, amend, emend, fix, gear, rectify, repair, straight), rätt (aright, authority, bang, claim, course, dish, fair, fairly, full, jolly, justice, law, law court, o.k., ok, okay, okeydokey, pretty, proper, quite, rather, right, right hand, righteousness, right-hand, rightly, straight, the right, tribunal, true, warrant), korrigera (amend, right), riktig (apposite, appropriate, fair, just, out and out, perfect, plentiful, positive, proper, pucka, pukka, right, righteous, sound, thorough, true), korrekt (correcting, correctly, decorous, just, prim, right), beriktiga (adjust, rectify). (various references)

Turkish

cezalandırmak (castigate, chastise, cop it, crime, discipline, dish out, give smb. gyp, penalize, plague, punish, sconce, scourge, slate, smirk), uygun (acceptable, accommodating, adaptable, adequate, advisable, agreeable, allowable, answerable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, becoming, befitting, calculated, comely, commensurate, comparative, compatible, concordant, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, consistent, convenient, cool, decent, done, due, eligible, enjoyable, equal, expedient, fair, fair enough, favorable, favourable, felicitous, fine, fit, fitted, fitting, for, in place, keen, likely, lovely, made to order, matching, meet, nice, opportune, permitting, pertinent, pleasant, proper, propitious, proportional, prosperous, pursuant, relevant, ripe, seasonable, seemly, Square, suitable, suited, tailormade, up to, well, well-matched), tam (absolute, accomplished, according to cocker, accurate, all out, at the time, bang, bang on, blank, clear, complete, consummate, dead, desperately, downright, due, engrained, entire, even, exact, exactly, factual, full, full complement, fully, holo-, implicit, ingrained, intact, integral, intimate, just, literal, mathematical, on time, out and out, outright, overall, perfect, plenary, Plumb, plunk, precise, precisely, prize, prompt, proper, punctual, rank, right, rightdown, root and branch, round, sharp, sheer, simple, slap bang, slick, solid, spot-on, Square, stark, straight, strict, the very, thorough, thoroughgoing, to a t, true, trueborn, unalloyed, unambiguous, unmitigated, unredeemed, unreserved, utter, very, whole), kusursuz (accomplished, beyond reproach, blameless, capital, clean, excellent, faultless, final, flawless, free from taint, immaculate, impeccable, indefectible, irreproachable, perfect, precise, root and branch, taintless, the dandy, the perfect, thorough, thoroughgoing, unblemished, unimpeachable), hatasız (impeccable, irreproachable, unblemished), haddini bildirmek (put smb. in his place, rap smb. over the knuckles, snub), doğrulamak (affirm, attest, avouch, bear out, certify, confirm, corroborate, hold with, homologate, justify, predicate, substantiate, support, sustain, testify, verify, vouch), doğru (above board, according to cocker, according to hoyle, accurate, aright, authentic, cheese, direct, due, exact, exactly, fair, fair enough, faithful, for, guileless, honest, honest injun, just, on time, ortho-, orthodox, precisely, prompt, proper, punctual, quite so, right, righteous, sincere, spot-on, Square, straight, straight as a die, straight line, the right, the thing, the truth, thro, through, thru, true, truthful, up to, upstanding), düzeltmek (adjust, ameliorate, amend, arrange, better, clean up, dub, emend, face-lift, fix, grade, grade up, haul up, heal, improve, justify, level, level off, level out, meliorate, mend, plane, planish, polish, polish up, reclaim, rectify, redress, refine, reform, regenerate, remedy, reorganize, right, set aright, slick, smooth, smooth away, smooth down, smooth out, smooth over, Spruce, spruce up, Square, straighten, straighten out, tidy up, trim, try out, unbend, unscramble, upgrade). (various references)

Turkmen 

mamla (right), jaя (building, dwelling), hak (perogative, right), dьrs. (various references)

Ukrainian

робити зауваження (observe, remark), коректувати (adjust), коректний (civil), карати (berate, chasten, chastise, discipline, penalize, punish, strafe), вірний (blue, certain, devoted, faithful, loyal, positive, staunch, sure, true, trusty), виправляти (amend, beet, better, castigate, chasten, emend, oversee, re establish, reclaim, rectify, redress, reform, remedy, retrieve, touch up), нейтралізувати (balance, counteract, negative, neutralize), належний (appropriate, appurtenant, becoming, competent, due, meet, opportune, owing, respectable, seemly), правильний (accurate, normal, orderly, proper, pure, regular, right, straight, true, truthful, unerring, well formed). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chính xác đúng đắn, phải (dexter, fair, off, right, rightly, serene, yes, yeses), đúng (actually, apt, aptly, aright, due, exact, fair, fitting, just, precise, precisely, proper, properly, right, rightly, true, very), được hợp. (various references)

Welsh

cywiro (amend, make good, perform), cywir (accurate, faithful, falcon, true), ceryddu (admonish, animadvert, chastise, rebuke). (various references)

Zulu

-phakeme (important, right, serious). (various references)

orthos. (various references)

castificantes, constabit, constabunt, constans, constant, constantes, constantia, constat, constiterant, emendare, emendationem, emendatum, emendo, rectus, sana, sanaballat, sanabant, sanabat, sanaberis, sanabit, sanabitur, sanabo, sanabor, sanabuntur, sanandi, sanando, sanandum, sanans, sanare, sanarentur, sanaret, sanari, sanarique, sanasti, sanastis, sanat, sanata, sanatae, sanati, sanator, sanatum, sanatus, sanavi, sanavit, sanem, sanetur, tersus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "correct": correctable, corrected, correcter, correctest, correcting, correction, correctional, corrections, correctitude, correctitudes, corrective, correctively, correctives, correctly, correctness, correctnesses, corrector, correctors, corrects. (additional references)

Words ending with "correct": hypercorrect, incorrect, overcorrect. (additional references)

Words containing "correct": hypercorrection, hypercorrections, hypercorrectly, hypercorrectness, hypercorrectnesses, incorrectly, incorrectness, incorrectnesses, overcorrected, overcorrecting, overcorrection, overcorrections, overcorrects, uncorrectable, uncorrected. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Correct" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: corect, correc, corret, crrec, curruc, Icorec, jorrocks. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: rector.

-2 letters: corer, crore, recto, retro.

-3 letters: cero, core, cote, croc, rote, torc, tore, torr.

-4 letters: cor, cot, err, orc, ore, ort, rec, ret, roc, roe, rot, toe, tor.

-5 letters: er, et, oe, or, re, to.

+1 letter: corrects.

+2 letters: cocreator, corrected, correcter, correctly, corrector, crocheter, incorrect, occurrent.

+3 letters: cocreators, codirector, concurrent, correctest, correcting, correction, corrective, correctors, countercry, crocheters, occurrents, preconcert.

+4 letters: accelerator, acrocentric, areocentric, catercorner, centromeric, codirectors, concertgoer, concurrents, conjecturer, consecrator, contracture, correctable, corrections, correctives, correctness, incorrectly, meritocracy, overcorrect, preconcerts, reciprocate, reciprocity, reconstruct, uncorrected.

+5 letters: accelerators, accretionary, acrocentrics, androcentric, calorimetric, chromocenter, chronometric, colorimetric, concentrator, concertgoers, concurrently, conjecturers, consecrators, consecratory, contractures, cornstarches, correctional, correctitude, correctively, countercries, counterforce, countermarch, crosscurrent, decorticator, erythrocytic, gerontocracy, heterocercal, hypercorrect, meritocratic, microculture, noncharacter, overcorrects, overcritical, preconcerted, pyroelectric, reciprocated, reciprocates, reciprocator, reconsecrate, reconstructs, trochanteric.