Spelling
Catagories or categories?
Categories is the right spelling. Catagories is a common misspelling of it.
CATAGORIES has A where CATEGORIES has E.
Why people write CATAGORIES
In an unstressed syllable, A, E, I and O all sound like a quick "uh", so the ear cannot tell which one is written.
Categories has the E of categorical: cat-E-gories.
How often CATEGORIES is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), CATAGORIES appears 2 times for every 1,000 CATEGORIES, about once for every 500 correct uses.
Is CATAGORIES a word?
No. CATAGORIES is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. CATEGORIES is in all three and scores 13 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What categories means
A division in any system of classification.
More words with the same mistake
The wrong vowel:
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