Spelling
Experiance or experience?
Experience is the right spelling. Experiance is a common misspelling of it.
EXPERIANCE has A where EXPERIENCE has E.
Why people write EXPERIANCE
In an unstressed syllable, A, E, I and O all sound like a quick "uh", so the ear cannot tell which one is written.
It ends in -ENCE, like science: experi-ENCE.
How often EXPERIENCE is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), EXPERIANCE appears 1 times for every 1,000 EXPERIENCE, about once for every 1,000 correct uses.
Is EXPERIANCE a word?
No. EXPERIANCE is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. EXPERIENCE is in all three and scores 21 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What experience means
noun: The accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities.
For example: "a man of experience"
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The wrong vowel:
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