Spelling
Opportunites or opportunities?
Opportunities is the right spelling. Opportunites is a common misspelling of it.
OPPORTUNITES leaves out the I after IT.
Why people write OPPORTUNITES
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.
Op + port + unities: a port of opportunity.
How often OPPORTUNITIES is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), OPPORTUNITES appears 4 times for every 1,000 OPPORTUNITIES, about once for every 250 correct uses.
Is OPPORTUNITES a word?
No. OPPORTUNITES is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. OPPORTUNITIES is in all three and scores 17 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What opportunities means
A chance to do something.
More words with the same mistake
A letter left out:
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