How to spell availability

hear ita·vail·a·bil·i·ty/ə,veɪlə'bɪlɪti/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: The state of being ready or able to be used.

In a sentence: The availability of cookies made everyone happy.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as availablity or avaliability.

Same family: available, unavailable, availability-check, availability-schedule. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Availability” comes from the verb “avail,” which traces back to Old French ‘valoir,’ meaning ‘to be worth.’ Over time, the word shifted from meaning usefulness or benefit to also describing whether something can be used or accessed.

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