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Availabilty or availability?

Availability is the right spelling. Availabilty is a common misspelling of it.

CorrectAVAILABILITY
IncorrectAVAILABIL​TY

AVAILABILTY leaves out the I after IL.

Why people write AVAILABILTY

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.

Avail + ability: a-VAIL-ability.

How often AVAILABILITY is misspelled

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

Is AVAILABILTY a word?

No. AVAILABILTY is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. AVAILABILITY is in all three and scores 20 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.

What availability means

The quality of being available.

More words with the same mistake

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