Spelling
Equitorial or equatorial?
Equatorial is the right spelling. Equitorial is a common misspelling of it.
EQUITORIAL has I where EQUATORIAL has A.
Why people write EQUITORIAL
In an unstressed syllable, A, E, I and O all sound like a quick "uh", so the ear cannot tell which one is written.
Find a related word where that syllable is stressed, and the vowel becomes clear: definite has finite in it, and grammar goes with grammatical.
How often EQUATORIAL is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), EQUITORIAL appears 55 times for every 1,000 EQUATORIAL, about once for every 18 correct uses.
Is EQUITORIAL a word?
No. EQUITORIAL is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. EQUATORIAL is in all three and scores 19 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What equatorial means
noun: A telescope whose mounting has only two axes of motion, one parallel to the Earth's axis and the other one at right angles to it.
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