Spelling
Withdrawl or withdrawal?
Withdrawal is the right spelling. Withdrawl is a common misspelling of it.
WITHDRAWL leaves out the A after AW.
Why people write WITHDRAWL
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.
Withdraw + al.
How often WITHDRAWAL is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), WITHDRAWL appears 78 times for every 1,000 WITHDRAWAL, about once for every 13 correct uses.
Is WITHDRAWL a word?
No. WITHDRAWL is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. WITHDRAWAL is in all three and scores 20 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What withdrawal means
noun: The act of withdrawing.
For example: "the withdrawal of French troops from Vietnam"
More words with the same mistake
A letter left out:
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