Spelling
Commerical or commercial?
Commercial is the right spelling. Commerical is a common misspelling of it.
COMMERICAL swaps C and I.
Why people write COMMERICAL
Two letters next to each other, often a vowel pair, are easy to swap when writing fast, and the result can still look right.
Commerce + ial: commer-CI-al.
How often COMMERCIAL is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), COMMERICAL appears 6 times for every 1,000 COMMERCIAL, about once for every 167 correct uses.
Is COMMERICAL a word?
No. COMMERICAL is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. COMMERCIAL is in all three and scores 18 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What commercial means
adjective: Connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises.
For example: "commercial trucker"
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