Spelling
Facilites or facilities?
Facilities is the right spelling. Facilites is a common misspelling of it.
FACILITES leaves out the I after IT.
Why people write FACILITES
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.
Spell the word out loud the slow way, exaggerating every letter ("govern-ment", "pump-kin"), and the missing letter comes back.
How often FACILITIES is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), FACILITES appears 2 times for every 1,000 FACILITIES, about once for every 500 correct uses.
Is FACILITES a word?
No. FACILITES is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. FACILITIES is in all three and scores 15 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What facilities means
noun: The quality of being facile.
For example: "catering facilities"
More words with the same mistake
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