Spelling
Intrested or interested?
Interested is the right spelling. Intrested is a common misspelling of it.
INTRESTED leaves out the E after NT.
Why people write INTRESTED
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.
Keep the whole INTEREST: interest + ed.
How often INTERESTED is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), INTRESTED appears 4 times for every 1,000 INTERESTED, about once for every 250 correct uses.
Is INTRESTED a word?
No. INTRESTED is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. INTERESTED is in all three and scores 11 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What interested means
adjective: Having or showing interest.
For example: "an interested audience"
More words with the same mistake
A letter left out:
More spelling help
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