Spelling
Assesment or assessment?
Assessment is the right spelling. Assesment is a common misspelling of it.
ASSESMENT has one S where ASSESSMENT has two.
Why people write ASSESMENT
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).
Assess + ment: two pairs of S, a-SS-e-SS-ment.
How often ASSESSMENT is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), ASSESMENT appears 3 times for every 1,000 ASSESSMENT, about once for every 333 correct uses.
Is ASSESMENT a word?
No. ASSESMENT is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. ASSESSMENT is in all three and scores 12 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What assessment means
noun: The classification of someone or something with respect to its worth.
More words with the same mistake
One letter where there should be two:
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