Spelling
Minature or miniature?
Miniature is the right spelling. Minature is a common misspelling of it.
MINATURE leaves out the I after IN.
Why people write MINATURE
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.
It begins with MINI: mini-ature.
How often MINIATURE is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), MINATURE appears 28 times for every 1,000 MINIATURE, about once for every 36 correct uses.
Is MINATURE a word?
No. MINATURE is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. MINIATURE is in all three and scores 11 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What miniature means
noun: Painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts).
More words with the same mistake
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