Spelling
Encylopedia or encyclopedia?
Encyclopedia is the right spelling. Encylopedia is a common misspelling of it.
ENCYLOPEDIA leaves out the C after CY.
Why people write ENCYLOPEDIA
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 ENCYCLOPEDIA is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), ENCYLOPEDIA appears 9 times for every 1,000 ENCYCLOPEDIA, about once for every 111 correct uses.
Is ENCYLOPEDIA a word?
No. ENCYLOPEDIA is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. ENCYCLOPEDIA is in all three and scores 22 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What encyclopedia means
noun: A reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty.
More words with the same mistake
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