Spelling
Arguement or argument?
Argument is the right spelling. Arguement is a common misspelling of it.
ARGUEMENT adds an E that ARGUMENT does not have.
Why people write ARGUEMENT
An extra vowel often creeps in where a word gains an ending (true becomes truly, not truely) or where the spoken word seems to need one.
Argue loses its E in an argument.
How often ARGUMENT is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), ARGUEMENT appears 6 times for every 1,000 ARGUMENT, about once for every 167 correct uses.
Is ARGUEMENT a word?
No. ARGUEMENT is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. ARGUMENT is in all three and scores 11 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What argument means
noun: A discussion involving differing points of view.
For example: "it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was true"
More words with the same mistake
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