Spelling
Mortage or mortgage?
Mortgage is the right spelling. Mortage is a common misspelling of it.
MORTAGE leaves out the G after RT.
Why people write MORTAGE
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.
A silent T: mort-gage (from old French: a dead pledge).
How often MORTGAGE is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), MORTAGE appears 6 times for every 1,000 MORTGAGE, about once for every 167 correct uses.
Is MORTAGE a word?
No. MORTAGE is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. MORTGAGE is in all three and scores 12 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What mortgage means
noun: A conditional conveyance of property as security for the repayment of a loan.
More words with the same mistake
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