Spelling
Bussiness or business?
Business is the right spelling. Bussiness is a common misspelling of it.
BUSSINESS doubles the S, which BUSINESS has once.
Why people write BUSSINESS
After seeing many words with doubled letters, it is natural to double one that should stay single, especially before an ending.
There's a BUS in business: bus + i + ness.
How often BUSINESS is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), BUSSINESS appears 1 times for every 1,000 BUSINESS, about once for every 1,000 correct uses.
Is BUSSINESS a word?
No. BUSSINESS is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. BUSINESS is in all three and scores 10 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What business means
noun: An occupation, profession, or trade.
For example: "he bought his brother's business"
More words with the same mistake
Two letters where there should be one:
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