Spelling
Seperation or separation?
Separation is the right spelling. Seperation is a common misspelling of it.
SEPERATION has E where SEPARATION has A.
Why people write SEPERATION
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 separation: sep-A-RAT-ion.
How often SEPARATION is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), SEPERATION appears 19 times for every 1,000 SEPARATION, about once for every 53 correct uses.
Is SEPERATION a word?
No. SEPERATION is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. SEPARATION is in all three and scores 12 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What separation means
noun: The act of separating.
For example: "fragile items require separation and cushioning"
More words with the same mistake
The wrong vowel:
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