Spelling
Responsibilty or responsibility?
Responsibility is the right spelling. Responsibilty is a common misspelling of it.
RESPONSIBILTY leaves out the I after IL.
Why people write RESPONSIBILTY
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 RESPONSIBILITY is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), RESPONSIBILTY appears 6 times for every 1,000 RESPONSIBILITY, about once for every 167 correct uses.
Is RESPONSIBILTY a word?
No. RESPONSIBILTY is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. RESPONSIBILITY is in all three and scores 21 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What responsibility means
noun: The quality of being responsible.
For example: "he holds a position of great responsibility"
More words with the same mistake
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