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Modles or models?

Models is the right spelling. Modles is a common misspelling of it.

CorrectMODELS
IncorrectMODLES

MODLES swaps E and L.

Why people write MODLES

Two letters next to each other, often a vowel pair, are easy to swap when writing fast, and the result can still look right.

Cover the word and write it in syllables; check each syllable against the dictionary spelling.

How often MODELS is misspelled

In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), MODLES appears 2 times for every 1,000 MODELS, about once for every 500 correct uses.

Is MODLES a word?

No. MODLES is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. MODELS is in all three and scores 9 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.

What models means

noun: A hypothetical description of a complex entity or process.

For example: "the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems"

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