Spelling
Seperately or separately?
Separately is the right spelling. Seperately is a common misspelling of it.
SEPERATELY has E where SEPARATELY has A.
Why people write SEPERATELY
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 separately: sep-A-RAT-ely.
How often SEPARATELY is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), SEPERATELY appears 33 times for every 1,000 SEPARATELY, about once for every 30 correct uses.
Is SEPERATELY a word?
No. SEPERATELY is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. SEPARATELY is in all three and scores 15 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What separately means
In a separate manner.
More words with the same mistake
The wrong vowel:
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