Spelling
Acess or access?
Access is the right spelling. Acess is a common misspelling of it.
ACESS has one C where ACCESS has two.
Why people write ACESS
Double letters are not heard when the word is said, so it is easy to write only one. The doubling usually comes from how the word was built: a prefix that ends in the same letter as the root (ac + commodate), or a final consonant doubled before an ending (begin, beginning).
Two Cs and two Ss: aCCeSS.
How often ACCESS is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), ACESS appears 1 times for every 1,000 ACCESS, about once for every 1,000 correct uses.
Is ACESS a word?
No. ACESS is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. ACCESS is in all three and scores 10 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What access means
noun: The right to enter.
More words with the same mistake
One letter where there should be two:
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