Spelling
Goverment or government?
Government is the right spelling. Goverment is a common misspelling of it.
GOVERMENT leaves out the N after ER.
Why people write GOVERMENT
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.
Govern + ment: the N of govern stays.
How often GOVERNMENT is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), GOVERMENT appears 3 times for every 1,000 GOVERNMENT, about once for every 333 correct uses.
Is GOVERMENT a word?
No. GOVERMENT is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. GOVERNMENT is in all three and scores 16 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What government means
noun: The organization that is the governing authority of a political unit.
For example: "the government reduced taxes"
More words with the same mistake
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