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Annoucements or announcements?
Announcements is the right spelling. Annoucements is a common misspelling of it.
ANNOUCEMENTS leaves out the N after OU.
Why people write ANNOUCEMENTS
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.
Announce + ments: keep the N of announce.
How often ANNOUNCEMENTS is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), ANNOUCEMENTS appears 6 times for every 1,000 ANNOUNCEMENTS, about once for every 167 correct uses.
Is ANNOUCEMENTS a word?
No. ANNOUCEMENTS is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. ANNOUNCEMENTS is in all three and scores 17 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What announcements means
noun: A formal public statement.
For example: "the government made an announcement about changes in the drug war"
More words with the same mistake
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