Spelling

Buisness or business?

Business is the right spelling. Buisness is a common misspelling of it.

CorrectBUSINESS
IncorrectBUISNESS

BUISNESS swaps S and I.

Why people write BUISNESS

Two letters next to each other, often a vowel pair, are easy to swap when writing fast, and the result can still look right.

There's a BUS in business: bus + i + ness.

How often BUSINESS is misspelled

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

Is BUISNESS a word?

No. BUISNESS is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. BUSINESS is in all three and scores 10 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.

What business means

noun: An occupation, profession, or trade.

For example: "he bought his brother's business"

More words with the same mistake

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