Spelling
Downlaod or download?
Download is the right spelling. Downlaod is a common misspelling of it.
DOWNLAOD swaps O and A.
Why people write DOWNLAOD
Two letters next to each other, often a vowel pair, are easy to swap when writing fast, and the result can still look right.
Down + load.
How often DOWNLOAD is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), DOWNLAOD appears 1 times for every 1,000 DOWNLOAD, about once for every 1,000 correct uses.
Is DOWNLAOD a word?
No. DOWNLAOD is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. DOWNLOAD is in all three and scores 13 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What download means
To transfer data from a large computer to a smaller one.
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