Spelling
Unfortunatly or unfortunately?
Unfortunately is the right spelling. Unfortunatly is a common misspelling of it.
UNFORTUNATLY leaves out the E after AT.
Why people write UNFORTUNATLY
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 UNFORTUNATELY is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), UNFORTUNATLY appears 13 times for every 1,000 UNFORTUNATELY, about once for every 77 correct uses.
Is UNFORTUNATLY a word?
No. UNFORTUNATLY is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. UNFORTUNATELY is in all three and scores 19 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What unfortunately means
In an unfortunate manner.
More words with the same mistake
A letter left out:
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