Spelling

Allready or already?

Already is the right spelling. Allready is a common misspelling of it.

CorrectAL​READY
IncorrectAL​LREADY

ALLREADY doubles the L, which ALREADY has once.

Why people write ALLREADY

After seeing many words with doubled letters, it is natural to double one that should stay single, especially before an ending.

Check the base word first: if the base has one letter (until, not untill), the longer word usually keeps one too.

How often ALREADY is misspelled

In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), ALLREADY appears 2 times for every 1,000 ALREADY, about once for every 500 correct uses.

Is ALLREADY a word?

No. ALLREADY is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. ALREADY is in all three and scores 11 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.

What already means

By this time.

More words with the same mistake

Two letters where there should be one:

More spelling help

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