Spelling
Adminstration or administration?
Administration is the right spelling. Adminstration is a common misspelling of it.
ADMINSTRATION leaves out the I after IN.
Why people write ADMINSTRATION
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.
Administer gives ad-MINI-stration.
How often ADMINISTRATION is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), ADMINSTRATION appears 3 times for every 1,000 ADMINISTRATION, about once for every 333 correct uses.
Is ADMINSTRATION a word?
No. ADMINSTRATION is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. ADMINISTRATION is in all three and scores 17 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What administration means
noun: The act of administrating.
For example: "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"
More words with the same mistake
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