Spelling
Apparantly or apparently?
Apparently is the right spelling. Apparantly is a common misspelling of it.
APPARANTLY has A where APPARENTLY has E.
Why people write APPARANTLY
In an unstressed syllable, A, E, I and O all sound like a quick "uh", so the ear cannot tell which one is written.
There's a PARENT in apPARENTly.
How often APPARENTLY is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), APPARANTLY appears 9 times for every 1,000 APPARENTLY, about once for every 111 correct uses.
Is APPARANTLY a word?
No. APPARANTLY is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. APPARENTLY is in all three and scores 17 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What apparently means
In an apparent manner.
More words with the same mistake
The wrong vowel:
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