Spelling
Curiousity or curiosity?
Curiosity is the right spelling. Curiousity is a common misspelling of it.
CURIOUSITY adds an U that CURIOSITY does not have.
Why people write CURIOUSITY
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.
Curious drops its U: curi-osity.
How often CURIOSITY is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), CURIOUSITY appears 63 times for every 1,000 CURIOSITY, about once for every 16 correct uses.
Is CURIOUSITY a word?
No. CURIOUSITY is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. CURIOSITY is in all three and scores 14 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What curiosity means
The quality of being curious.
More words with the same mistake
An extra letter:
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