Spelling
Enternal or eternal?
Eternal is the right spelling. Enternal is a common misspelling of it.
ENTERNAL adds a N that ETERNAL does not have.
Why people write ENTERNAL
An extra vowel often creeps in where a word gains an ending (true becomes truly, not truely) or where the spoken word seems to need one.
Write the base word, then add the ending by the rule: drop the silent E before most endings (argue, argument; true, truly).
How often ETERNAL is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), ENTERNAL appears 20 times for every 1,000 ETERNAL, about once for every 50 correct uses.
Is ENTERNAL a word?
No. ENTERNAL is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. ETERNAL is in all three and scores 7 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What eternal means
adjective: Continuing forever or indefinitely.
More words with the same mistake
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