Spelling
Interacial or interracial?
Interracial is the right spelling. Interacial is a common misspelling of it.
INTERACIAL has one R where INTERRACIAL has two.
Why people write INTERACIAL
Double letters are not heard when the word is said, so it is easy to write only one. The doubling usually comes from how the word was built: a prefix that ends in the same letter as the root (ac + commodate), or a final consonant doubled before an ending (begin, beginning).
Say the word slowly in syllables and write each syllable separately: the doubled letter usually sits where two syllables meet.
How often INTERRACIAL is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), INTERACIAL appears 47 times for every 1,000 INTERRACIAL, about once for every 21 correct uses.
Is INTERACIAL a word?
No. INTERACIAL is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. INTERRACIAL is in all three and scores 13 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What interracial means
adjective: Between races.
For example: "interracial conflict"
More words with the same mistake
One letter where there should be two:
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