Spelling
Bandwith or bandwidth?
Bandwidth is the right spelling. Bandwith is a common misspelling of it.
BANDWITH leaves out the D after WI.
Why people write BANDWITH
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.
Band + width: keep the D of band.
How often BANDWIDTH is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), BANDWITH appears 19 times for every 1,000 BANDWIDTH, about once for every 53 correct uses.
Is BANDWITH a word?
No. BANDWITH is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. BANDWIDTH is in all three and scores 19 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What bandwidth means
Data transfer capacity.
More words with the same mistake
A letter left out:
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