Spelling
Offical or official?
Official is the right spelling. Offical is a common misspelling of it.
OFFICAL leaves out the I after IC.
Why people write OFFICAL
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.
Two Fs: oFFicial, like office.
How often OFFICIAL is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), OFFICAL appears 6 times for every 1,000 OFFICIAL, about once for every 167 correct uses.
Is OFFICAL a word?
No. OFFICAL is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. OFFICIAL is in all three and scores 16 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What official means
noun: One that holds a position of authority.
For example: "the golfer asked for an official who could give him a ruling"
More words with the same mistake
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