Spelling
Saftey or safety?
Safety is the right spelling. Saftey is a common misspelling of it.
SAFTEY swaps E and T.
Why people write SAFTEY
Two letters next to each other, often a vowel pair, are easy to swap when writing fast, and the result can still look right.
Safe + ty: keep the E of safe.
How often SAFETY is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), SAFTEY appears 2 times for every 1,000 SAFETY, about once for every 500 correct uses.
Is SAFTEY a word?
No. SAFTEY is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. SAFETY is in all three and scores 12 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What safety means
noun: The state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions.
For example: "insure the safety of the children"
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