Spelling
Totaly or totally?
Totally is the right spelling. Totaly is a common misspelling of it.
TOTALY has one L where TOTALLY has two.
Why people write TOTALY
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 TOTALLY is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), TOTALY appears 13 times for every 1,000 TOTALLY, about once for every 77 correct uses.
Is TOTALY a word?
No. TOTALY is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. TOTALLY is in all three and scores 10 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What totally means
In a complete manner.
More words with the same mistake
One letter where there should be two:
More spelling help
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