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Pictuers or pictures?

Pictures is the right spelling. Pictuers is a common misspelling of it.

CorrectPICTURES
IncorrectPICTUERS

PICTUERS swaps R and E.

Why people write PICTUERS

Two letters next to each other, often a vowel pair, are easy to swap when writing fast, and the result can still look right.

Cover the word and write it in syllables; check each syllable against the dictionary spelling.

How often PICTURES is misspelled

In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), PICTUERS appears 1 times for every 1,000 PICTURES, about once for every 1,000 correct uses.

Is PICTUERS a word?

No. PICTUERS is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. PICTURES is in all three and scores 12 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.

What pictures means

noun: A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface.

For example: "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"

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