Spelling
Diffrent or different?
Different is the right spelling. Diffrent is a common misspelling of it.
DIFFRENT leaves out the E after FF.
Why people write DIFFRENT
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.
Spell the word out loud the slow way, exaggerating every letter ("govern-ment", "pump-kin"), and the missing letter comes back.
How often DIFFERENT is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), DIFFRENT appears 1 times for every 1,000 DIFFERENT, about once for every 1,000 correct uses.
Is DIFFRENT a word?
No. DIFFRENT is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. DIFFERENT is in all three and scores 16 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What different means
adjective: Unlike in nature or quality or form or degree.
For example: "took different approaches to the problem"
More words with the same mistake
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