Spelling
Completly or completely?
Completely is the right spelling. Completly is a common misspelling of it.
COMPLETLY leaves out the E after ET.
Why people write COMPLETLY
Some letters are barely said, or not said at all, in everyday speech (the N in government, the P in pumpkin), so they drop out when the word is written as it sounds.
Complete + ly: keep the E of complete.
How often COMPLETELY is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), COMPLETLY appears 11 times for every 1,000 COMPLETELY, about once for every 91 correct uses.
Is COMPLETLY a word?
No. COMPLETLY is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. COMPLETELY is in all three and scores 19 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What completely means
In a complete manner.
More words with the same mistake
A letter left out:
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