Appartment or apartment?
Did you mean apartment? Here's the right spelling and how to remember it.
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Correct spelling: apartment. Misspelling: appartment.
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Memory tip
One P: a-PART-ment. You live apart in an apartment.
Why people write “appartment”
The misspelling “appartment” is only one letter off: it doubles the P, which apartment spells with just one.
Spell-checkers catch the mistake in a document, but not in a handwritten note, a text message or a word game. Writing the word out a few times while saying the tricky part aloud is the quickest way to make apartment automatic.
Other misspellings of “apartment”
People also write “apartmant”. Here is where each one goes wrong.
“apartmant”
Correct spelling: apartment. Misspelling: apartmant.
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The endings -ent and -ant are pronounced the same way; this word takes -ent.
What does “apartment” mean?
apartment noun
- a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
Synonyms:flat
Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Full dictionary entry
“Apartment” in a sentence
- Their apartment is on the fourth floor.
Is “apartment” a playable word?
13 points in Scrabble · 16 in Words With Friends
- Scrabble (US)
- Scrabble (UK)
- Words With Friends
“appartment” is not accepted in any of these games. See every word you can make from APARTMENT.