Spelling
Adresses or addresses?
Addresses is the right spelling. Adresses is a common misspelling of it.
ADRESSES has one D where ADDRESSES has two.
Why people write ADRESSES
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 Ds, then two Ss twice: aDDreSSeS.
How often ADDRESSES is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), ADRESSES appears 8 times for every 1,000 ADDRESSES, about once for every 125 correct uses.
Is ADRESSES a word?
No. ADRESSES is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. ADDRESSES is in all three and scores 11 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What addresses means
noun: The code that identifies where a piece of information is stored.
For example: "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets"
More words with the same mistake
One letter where there should be two:
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