Spelling
Orginal or original?
Original is the right spelling. Orginal is a common misspelling of it.
ORGINAL leaves out the I after OR.
Why people write ORGINAL
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.
Origin + al: orig-IN-al.
How often ORIGINAL is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), ORGINAL appears 3 times for every 1,000 ORIGINAL, about once for every 333 correct uses.
Is ORGINAL a word?
No. ORGINAL is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. ORIGINAL is in all three and scores 9 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What original means
adjective: Preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed.
For example: "the original inhabitants of the Americas"
More words with the same mistake
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