Spelling
Preperation or preparation?
Preparation is the right spelling. Preperation is a common misspelling of it.
PREPERATION has E where PREPARATION has A.
Why people write PREPERATION
In an unstressed syllable, A, E, I and O all sound like a quick "uh", so the ear cannot tell which one is written.
Prepare gives prep-A-ration: the A of prepare stays.
How often PREPARATION is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), PREPERATION appears 6 times for every 1,000 PREPARATION, about once for every 167 correct uses.
Is PREPERATION a word?
No. PREPERATION is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. PREPARATION is in all three and scores 15 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What preparation means
noun: The act of preparing.
More words with the same mistake
The wrong vowel:
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