Spelling
Activites or activities?
Activities is the right spelling. Activites is a common misspelling of it.
ACTIVITES leaves out the I after IT.
Why people write ACTIVITES
Some letters are barely said, or not said at all, in everyday speech (the N in government, the P in pumpkin), so they drop out when the word is written as it sounds.
Activity + ies: activ-I-ties.
How often ACTIVITIES is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), ACTIVITES appears 4 times for every 1,000 ACTIVITIES, about once for every 250 correct uses.
Is ACTIVITES a word?
No. ACTIVITES is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. ACTIVITIES is in all three and scores 15 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What activities means
Brisk action or movement.
More words with the same mistake
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