Itinery or itinerary?
Did you mean itinerary? Here's the right spelling and how to remember it.
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itinery
Correct
itinerary
Correct spelling: itinerary. Misspelling: itinery.
letters the misspelling gets wrong or leaves out letters that shouldn't be there
Memory tip
Say all five syllables: i-TIN-er-ar-y.
Why people write “itinery”
“itinery” differs from “itinerary” in 2 places: it leaves out the R; and it leaves out the A.
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 itinerary automatic.
Other misspellings of “itinerary”
People also write “itenerary”. Here is where each one goes wrong.
“itenerary”
Correct spelling: itinerary. Misspelling: itenerary.
letters the misspelling gets wrong or leaves out letters that shouldn't be there
The misspelling “itenerary” is only one letter off: it writes E where itinerary has I, an easy slip because in an unstressed syllable both vowels can sound like the same soft "uh".
What does “itinerary” mean?
itinerary noun
Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Full dictionary entry
“Itinerary” in a sentence
- Our itinerary includes three cities.
Is “itinerary” a playable word?
12 points in Scrabble · 12 in Words With Friends
- Scrabble (US)
- Scrabble (UK)
- Words With Friends
“itinery” is not accepted in any of these games. See every word you can make from ITINERARY.