Spelling
Performace or performance?
Performance is the right spelling. Performace is a common misspelling of it.
PERFORMACE leaves out the N after MA.
Why people write PERFORMACE
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 PERFORMANCE is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), PERFORMACE appears 1 times for every 1,000 PERFORMANCE, about once for every 1,000 correct uses.
Is PERFORMACE a word?
No. PERFORMACE is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. PERFORMANCE is in all three and scores 20 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What performance means
noun: A dramatic or musical entertainment.
For example: "they listened to ten different performances"
More words with the same mistake
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