Spelling
Advertisments or advertisements?
Advertisements is the right spelling. Advertisments is a common misspelling of it.
ADVERTISMENTS leaves out the E after IS.
Why people write ADVERTISMENTS
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.
Advertise + ments: keep the E of advertise.
How often ADVERTISEMENTS is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), ADVERTISMENTS appears 28 times for every 1,000 ADVERTISEMENTS, about once for every 36 correct uses.
Is ADVERTISMENTS a word?
No. ADVERTISMENTS is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. ADVERTISEMENTS is in all three and scores 20 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What advertisements means
noun: A public promotion of some product or service.
More words with the same mistake
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