Well you’re looking for it with the wrong spelling! By now you may be familiar with my fondness to find misspellings for my favorite words (okay, let’s change that to favorite subjects – I really can’t say these are my favorite words). I looked around a bit, and found that for ellipticals, the most common mispelling seems to be eliptical (e.g. elipticals, eliptical trainers, eliptical machines, schwinn eliptical etc).
There are some other (albeit much less) common errors out there though: elliptcal, ellyptical, ellipitcal, ellipticall and ellipticalls, ellitical, elipticle, eliptic, and ellipical. Strangely, about the same number of people uses ‘eliptic’ in conjunction with some exercise related term (e.g. eliptic climber) as elliptic (e.g elliptic exercise). Go figure.
Very rare, though still out there, are elipticall, elyptical, ellptical, elliptial, ellipticl, ellipticla, elliptiacl, elliptcial, ellitpical, ellpitical, elipticor, ellipticles, and ellicptical.
As to trainer – I haven’t found that many misspellings. Trainier and trainiers, trainr, traner and traners, triner, tariner, tranier and that’s about it… Some people could really use a spell checker (not to say I am perfect myself…).