Spelling
Comparision or comparison?
Comparison is the right spelling. Comparision is a common misspelling of it.
COMPARISION adds an I that COMPARISON does not have.
Why people write COMPARISION
An extra vowel often creeps in where a word gains an ending (true becomes truly, not truely) or where the spoken word seems to need one.
Write the base word, then add the ending by the rule: drop the silent E before most endings (argue, argument; true, truly).
How often COMPARISON is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), COMPARISION appears 6 times for every 1,000 COMPARISON, about once for every 167 correct uses.
Is COMPARISION a word?
No. COMPARISION is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. COMPARISON is in all three and scores 16 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What comparison means
noun: The act of examining resemblances.
For example: "they made a comparison of noise levels"
More words with the same mistake
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