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Grammer or grammar?

Grammar is the right spelling. Grammer is a common misspelling of it.

CorrectGRAMMAR
IncorrectGRAMMER

GRAMMER has E where GRAMMAR has A.

Why people write GRAMMER

In an unstressed syllable, A, E, I and O all sound like a quick "uh", so the ear cannot tell which one is written.

Bad grammAR will mAR your writing.

How often GRAMMAR is misspelled

In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), GRAMMER appears 44 times for every 1,000 GRAMMAR, about once for every 23 correct uses.

Is GRAMMER a word?

No. GRAMMER is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. GRAMMAR is in all three and scores 12 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.

What grammar means

The study of the formal features of a language.

More words with the same mistake

The wrong vowel:

More spelling help

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