Spelling
Tarifs or tariffs?
Tariffs is the right spelling. Tarifs is a common misspelling of it.
TARIFS has one F where TARIFFS has two.
Why people write TARIFS
Double letters are not heard when the word is said, so it is easy to write only one. The doubling usually comes from how the word was built: a prefix that ends in the same letter as the root (ac + commodate), or a final consonant doubled before an ending (begin, beginning).
Say the word slowly in syllables and write each syllable separately: the doubled letter usually sits where two syllables meet.
How often TARIFFS is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), TARIFS appears 98 times for every 1,000 TARIFFS, about once for every 10 correct uses.
Is TARIFS a word?
No. TARIFS is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. TARIFFS is in all three and scores 13 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What tariffs means
noun: A government tax on imports or exports.
More words with the same mistake
One letter where there should be two:
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