Spelling
Relase or release?
Release is the right spelling. Relase is a common misspelling of it.
RELASE leaves out the E after EL.
Why people write RELASE
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.
Re + lease.
How often RELEASE is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), RELASE appears 1 times for every 1,000 RELEASE, about once for every 1,000 correct uses.
Is RELASE a word?
No. RELASE is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. RELEASE is in all three and scores 7 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What release means
To set free.
More words with the same mistake
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