Spelling

Availibility or availability?

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

CorrectAVAILABILITY
IncorrectAVAILIBILITY

AVAILIBILITY has I where AVAILABILITY has A.

Why people write AVAILIBILITY

In an unstressed syllable, A, E, I and O all sound like a quick "uh", so the ear cannot tell which one is written.

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), AVAILIBILITY appears 3 times for every 1,000 AVAILABILITY, about once for every 333 correct uses.

Is AVAILIBILITY a word?

No. AVAILIBILITY 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

The wrong vowel:

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