Spelling
Absolutley or absolutely?
Absolutely is the right spelling. Absolutley is a common misspelling of it.
ABSOLUTLEY swaps E and L.
Why people write ABSOLUTLEY
Two letters next to each other, often a vowel pair, are easy to swap when writing fast, and the result can still look right.
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How often ABSOLUTELY is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), ABSOLUTLEY appears 8 times for every 1,000 ABSOLUTELY, about once for every 125 correct uses.
Is ABSOLUTLEY a word?
No. ABSOLUTLEY is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. ABSOLUTELY is in all three and scores 15 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What absolutely means
In an absolute manner.
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