Spelling
Downlod or download?
Download is the right spelling. Downlod is a common misspelling of it.
DOWNLOD leaves out the A after LO.
Why people write DOWNLOD
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.
Down + load.
How often DOWNLOAD is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), DOWNLOD appears 1 times for every 1,000 DOWNLOAD, about once for every 1,000 correct uses.
Is DOWNLOD a word?
No. DOWNLOD 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.
More words with the same mistake
A letter left out:
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