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Enviroment or environment?

Environment is the right spelling. Enviroment is a common misspelling of it.

CorrectENVIRONMENT
IncorrectENVIRO​MENT

ENVIROMENT leaves out the N after RO.

Why people write ENVIROMENT

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.

There's IRON in envIRONment.

How often ENVIRONMENT is misspelled

In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), ENVIROMENT appears 4 times for every 1,000 ENVIRONMENT, about once for every 250 correct uses.

Is ENVIROMENT a word?

No. ENVIROMENT is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. ENVIRONMENT is in all three and scores 16 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.

What environment means

noun: The totality of surrounding conditions.

For example: "he longed for the comfortable environment of his living room"

More words with the same mistake

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