Spelling
Rediculous or ridiculous?
Ridiculous is the right spelling. Rediculous is a common misspelling of it.
REDICULOUS has E where RIDICULOUS has I.
Why people write REDICULOUS
In an unstressed syllable, A, E, I and O all sound like a quick "uh", so the ear cannot tell which one is written.
It starts like ridicule: RIDI-culous.
How often RIDICULOUS is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), REDICULOUS appears 42 times for every 1,000 RIDICULOUS, about once for every 24 correct uses.
Is REDICULOUS a word?
No. REDICULOUS is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. RIDICULOUS is in all three and scores 13 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What ridiculous means
adjective: Inspiring scornful pity.
More words with the same mistake
The wrong vowel:
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