Spelling
Similiar or similar?
Similar is the right spelling. Similiar is a common misspelling of it.
SIMILIAR adds an I that SIMILAR does not have.
Why people write SIMILIAR
An extra vowel often creeps in where a word gains an ending (true becomes truly, not truely) or where the spoken word seems to need one.
One I before the L: si-mi-lar, ending in -AR.
How often SIMILAR is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), SIMILIAR appears 4 times for every 1,000 SIMILAR, about once for every 250 correct uses.
Is SIMILIAR a word?
No. SIMILIAR is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. SIMILAR is in all three and scores 9 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What similar means
Being like but not completely identical to.
More words with the same mistake
An extra letter:
More spelling help
Commonly misspelled words, grouped by the mistake · Free printables and word games for teachers · Unscramble any letters