Spelling
Onlne or online?
Online is the right spelling. Onlne is a common misspelling of it.
ONLNE leaves out the I after NL.
Why people write ONLNE
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.
Spell the word out loud the slow way, exaggerating every letter ("govern-ment", "pump-kin"), and the missing letter comes back.
How often ONLINE is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), ONLNE appears 1 times for every 1,000 ONLINE, about once for every 1,000 correct uses.
Is ONLNE a word?
No. ONLNE is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. ONLINE is in NWL2023 and Collins Scrabble Words and scores 6 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What online means
adjective: Connected to a computer network.
More words with the same mistake
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