Spelling
Intersting or interesting?
Interesting is the right spelling. Intersting is a common misspelling of it.
INTERSTING leaves out the E after ER.
Why people write INTERSTING
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 + ing.
How often INTERESTING is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), INTERSTING appears 3 times for every 1,000 INTERESTING, about once for every 333 correct uses.
Is INTERSTING a word?
No. INTERSTING is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. INTERESTING is in all three and scores 12 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What interesting means
adjective: Arousing or holding the attention.
More words with the same mistake
A letter left out:
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