Spelling
Exellent or excellent?
Excellent is the right spelling. Exellent is a common misspelling of it.
EXELLENT leaves out the C after EX.
Why people write EXELLENT
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.
Excel + L + ent: two Ls, and it ends in -ENT.
How often EXCELLENT is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), EXELLENT appears 3 times for every 1,000 EXCELLENT, about once for every 333 correct uses.
Is EXELLENT a word?
No. EXELLENT is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. EXCELLENT is in all three and scores 18 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What excellent means
adjective: Very good.
For example: "made an excellent speech"
More words with the same mistake
A letter left out:
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