Spelling
Actualy or actually?
Actually is the right spelling. Actualy is a common misspelling of it.
ACTUALY has one L where ACTUALLY has two.
Why people write ACTUALY
Double letters are not heard when the word is said, so it is easy to write only one. The doubling usually comes from how the word was built: a prefix that ends in the same letter as the root (ac + commodate), or a final consonant doubled before an ending (begin, beginning).
Actual + ly: two Ls.
How often ACTUALLY is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), ACTUALY appears 3 times for every 1,000 ACTUALLY, about once for every 333 correct uses.
Is ACTUALY a word?
No. ACTUALY is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. ACTUALLY is in all three and scores 13 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What actually means
In an actual manner.
More words with the same mistake
One letter where there should be two:
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