Spelling
Seperate or separate?
Separate is the right spelling. Seperate is a common misspelling of it.
SEPERATE has E where SEPARATE has A.
Why people write SEPERATE
In an unstressed syllable, A, E, I and O all sound like a quick "uh", so the ear cannot tell which one is written.
There's a rat in separate: sep-A-RAT-e.
How often SEPARATE is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), SEPERATE appears 48 times for every 1,000 SEPARATE, about once for every 21 correct uses.
Is SEPERATE a word?
No. SEPERATE is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. SEPARATE is in all three and scores 10 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What separate means
verb: To set or keep apart.
For example: "He separated the fighting children"
More words with the same mistake
The wrong vowel:
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