Spelling
Tures or tires?
Tires is the right spelling. Tures is a common misspelling of it.
TURES has U where TIRES has I.
Why people write TURES
In an unstressed syllable, A, E, I and O all sound like a quick "uh", so the ear cannot tell which one is written.
Find a related word where that syllable is stressed, and the vowel becomes clear: definite has finite in it, and grammar goes with grammatical.
How often TIRES is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), TURES appears 72 times for every 1,000 TIRES, about once for every 14 correct uses.
Is TURES a word?
No. TURES is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. TIRES is in all three and scores 5 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What tires means
noun: Hoop that covers a wheel.
For example: "automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air"
More words with the same mistake
The wrong vowel:
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