Spelling
Grils or girls?
Girls is the right spelling. Grils is a common misspelling of it.
GRILS swaps I and R.
Why people write GRILS
Two letters next to each other, often a vowel pair, are easy to swap when writing fast, and the result can still look right.
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How often GIRLS is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), GRILS appears 4 times for every 1,000 GIRLS, about once for every 250 correct uses.
Is GRILS a word?
No. GRILS is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. GIRLS is in all three and scores 6 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What girls means
noun: A female child.
For example: "the baby was a girl"
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