Spelling

Availible or available?

Available is the right spelling. Availible is a common misspelling of it.

CorrectAVAILABLE
IncorrectAVAILIBLE

AVAILIBLE has I where AVAILABLE has A.

Why people write AVAILIBLE

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 + able: it ends in -ABLE.

How often AVAILABLE is misspelled

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

Is AVAILIBLE a word?

No. AVAILIBLE is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. AVAILABLE is in all three and scores 14 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.

What available means

Not otherwise in use.

More words with the same mistake

The wrong vowel:

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