Spelling
Explaination or explanation?
Explanation is the right spelling. Explaination is a common misspelling of it.
EXPLAINATION adds an I that EXPLANATION does not have.
Why people write EXPLAINATION
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.
Explain loses its I: expla-nation.
How often EXPLANATION is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), EXPLAINATION appears 11 times for every 1,000 EXPLANATION, about once for every 91 correct uses.
Is EXPLAINATION a word?
No. EXPLAINATION is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. EXPLANATION is in all three and scores 20 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What explanation means
noun: A statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc..
For example: "the explanation was very simple"
More words with the same mistake
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