vermillion

See also: Vermillion

English

vermillion (countable and uncountable, plural vermillions)

vermillion (comparative more vermillion, superlative most vermillion)

vermillion (third-person singular simple present vermillions, present participle vermillioning, simple past and past participle vermillioned or vermillion'd)

Some authorities^[who?] view this as a misspelling; others consider it a valid but perhaps dated alternative.
It is entered as a second-listed spelling without prejudice or usage note in major dictionaries.^[1]^[2]^[3]
The Oxford English Dictionary online includes 23 citations of the noun or adjective with this spelling, ranging in date from 1597 to 1865,^[4] as well as nine citations of the verb from 1656 to 1849.^[5]
About 30% of the usage of vermilion/vermillion in the US (COCA) is in this spelling. In modern British usage, this spelling is rare (only 2 publications in the BNC, out of thousands).
Only the one-L spelling appears in Webster's 1828, 1841 and 1913 dictionaries.

^ “vermillion”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
^ “vermillion”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
^ “vermilion (also vermillion)”, in Oxford Dictionaries‎^[1], Oxford University Press, 2018 November 26 (last accessed), sourced from (US English module).
^ “vermilion, n. and adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
^ “vermilion, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.