Spelling
Developement or development?
Development is the right spelling. Developement is a common misspelling of it.
DEVELOPEMENT adds an E that DEVELOPMENT does not have.
Why people write DEVELOPEMENT
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.
Develop + ment: no E after develop.
How often DEVELOPMENT is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), DEVELOPEMENT appears 1 times for every 1,000 DEVELOPMENT, about once for every 1,000 correct uses.
Is DEVELOPEMENT a word?
No. DEVELOPEMENT is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. DEVELOPMENT is in all three and scores 19 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What development means
noun: Act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining.
For example: "he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency"
More words with the same mistake
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