Spelling
Pavillion or pavilion?
Pavilion is the right spelling. Pavillion is a common misspelling of it.
PAVILLION doubles the L, which PAVILION has once.
Why people write PAVILLION
After seeing many words with doubled letters, it is natural to double one that should stay single, especially before an ending.
One L: pa-vil-ion, unlike million.
How often PAVILION is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), PAVILLION appears 79 times for every 1,000 PAVILION, about once for every 13 correct uses.
Is PAVILLION a word?
No. PAVILLION is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. PAVILION is in all three and scores 13 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What pavilion means
To cover with a large tent.
More words with the same mistake
Two letters where there should be one:
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