Spelling
Catagory or category?
Category is the right spelling. Catagory is a common misspelling of it.
CATAGORY has A where CATEGORY has E.
Why people write CATAGORY
In an unstressed syllable, A, E, I and O all sound like a quick "uh", so the ear cannot tell which one is written.
Category has the E of categorical: cat-E-gory.
How often CATEGORY is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), CATAGORY appears 3 times for every 1,000 CATEGORY, about once for every 333 correct uses.
Is CATAGORY a word?
No. CATAGORY is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. CATEGORY is in all three and scores 14 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What category means
A division in any system of classification.
More words with the same mistake
The wrong vowel:
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