Spelling

Dowloads or downloads?

Downloads is the right spelling. Dowloads is a common misspelling of it.

CorrectDOWNLOADS
IncorrectDOW​LOADS

DOWLOADS leaves out the N after OW.

Why people write DOWLOADS

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 + loads.

How often DOWNLOADS is misspelled

In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), DOWLOADS appears 3 times for every 1,000 DOWNLOADS, about once for every 333 correct uses.

Is DOWLOADS a word?

No. DOWLOADS is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. DOWNLOADS is in all three and scores 14 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.

What downloads means

To transfer data from a large computer to a smaller one.

More words with the same mistake

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