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Serach or search?

Search is the right spelling. Serach is a common misspelling of it.

CorrectSEARCH
IncorrectSERACH

SERACH swaps A and R.

Why people write SERACH

Two letters next to each other, often a vowel pair, are easy to swap when writing fast, and the result can still look right.

Cover the word and write it in syllables; check each syllable against the dictionary spelling.

How often SEARCH is misspelled

In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), SERACH appears 1 times for every 1,000 SEARCH, about once for every 1,000 correct uses.

Is SERACH a word?

No. SERACH is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. SEARCH is in all three and scores 11 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.

What search means

verb: To look through or over carefully in order to find something.

For example: "The police are searching for clues"

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