Spelling
Suprise or surprise?
Surprise is the right spelling. Suprise is a common misspelling of it.
SUPRISE leaves out the R after SU.
Why people write SUPRISE
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.
Surprise starts like SURE: sur-prise.
How often SURPRISE is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), SUPRISE appears 39 times for every 1,000 SURPRISE, about once for every 26 correct uses.
Is SUPRISE a word?
No. SUPRISE is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. SURPRISE is in all three and scores 10 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What surprise means
verb: To come upon unexpectedly.
For example: "The news really surprised me"
More words with the same mistake
A letter left out:
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