Spelling
Sofware or software?
Software is the right spelling. Sofware is a common misspelling of it.
SOFWARE leaves out the T after OF.
Why people write SOFWARE
Some letters are barely said, or not said at all, in everyday speech (the N in government, the P in pumpkin), so they drop out when the word is written as it sounds.
Spell the word out loud the slow way, exaggerating every letter ("govern-ment", "pump-kin"), and the missing letter comes back.
How often SOFTWARE is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), SOFWARE appears 1 times for every 1,000 SOFTWARE, about once for every 1,000 correct uses.
Is SOFWARE a word?
No. SOFWARE is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. SOFTWARE is in all three and scores 14 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What software means
Written or printed data used in computer operations.
More words with the same mistake
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