Spelling
Existance or existence?
Existence is the right spelling. Existance is a common misspelling of it.
EXISTANCE has A where EXISTENCE has E.
Why people write EXISTANCE
In an unstressed syllable, A, E, I and O all sound like a quick "uh", so the ear cannot tell which one is written.
Exist + ence: it ends in -ENCE.
How often EXISTENCE is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), EXISTANCE appears 25 times for every 1,000 EXISTENCE, about once for every 40 correct uses.
Is EXISTANCE a word?
No. EXISTANCE is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. EXISTENCE is in all three and scores 18 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What existence means
noun: The state or fact of existing.
More words with the same mistake
The wrong vowel:
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