How do you spell editorial?

E-D-I-T-O-R-I-A-L

Editorial is spelled E-D-I-T-O-R-I-A-L, nine letters built on the word editor. Editoral, missing the second i, is the slip to watch for. Editorial and commercial are the two main ways people use stock images, and both are allowed here with the notes on the license page.

Spelling tip

Editor plus -ial; the i before the a is the letter most often left out.

What it means

Editorial use illustrates news, commentary and education rather than promoting a product. Because the stock images here are AI-assisted, editorial use should label them as illustrative rather than as records of real events.

Common misspellings

• editoral → editorial
• editorail → editorial
• edditorial → editorial
• editorual → editorial
• editoriel → editorial