Superintendant or superintendent?
Did you mean superintendent? Here's the right spelling and how to remember it.
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superintendent
Correct spelling: superintendent. Misspelling: superintendant.
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Memory tip
Super + intendent: the ending is -ent, as in independent.
Why people write “superintendant”
The endings -ent and -ant are pronounced the same way; this word takes -ent.
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 superintendent automatic.
Other misspellings of “superintendent”
People also write “superintendint”. Here is where each one goes wrong.
“superintendint”
Correct spelling: superintendent. Misspelling: superintendint.
letters the misspelling gets wrong or leaves out letters that shouldn't be there
The misspelling “superintendint” is only one letter off: it writes I where superintendent has E, an easy slip because in an unstressed syllable both vowels can sound like the same soft "uh".
What does “superintendent” mean?
superintendent noun
Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Full dictionary entry
“Superintendent” in a sentence
- The building superintendent fixed the boiler.
Is “superintendent” a playable word?
17 points in Scrabble · 22 in Words With Friends
- Scrabble (US)
- Scrabble (UK)
- Words With Friends
“superintendant” is not accepted in any of these games. See every word you can make from SUPERINTENDENT.