Spelling
Beatiful or beautiful?
Beautiful is the right spelling. Beatiful is a common misspelling of it.
BEATIFUL leaves out the U after EA.
Why people write BEATIFUL
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.
It starts with BEAU, French for handsome: beau-ti-ful.
How often BEAUTIFUL is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), BEATIFUL appears 3 times for every 1,000 BEAUTIFUL, about once for every 333 correct uses.
Is BEATIFUL a word?
No. BEATIFUL is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. BEAUTIFUL is in all three and scores 14 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What beautiful means
Esthetically pleasing.
More words with the same mistake
A letter left out:
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