Spelling
Harrassment or harassment?
Harassment is the right spelling. Harrassment is a common misspelling of it.
HARRASSMENT doubles the R, which HARASSMENT has once.
Why people write HARRASSMENT
After seeing many words with doubled letters, it is natural to double one that should stay single, especially before an ending.
One R, two Ss: ha-R-a-SS-ment.
How often HARASSMENT is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), HARRASSMENT appears 39 times for every 1,000 HARASSMENT, about once for every 26 correct uses.
Is HARRASSMENT a word?
No. HARRASSMENT is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. HARASSMENT is in all three and scores 15 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What harassment means
noun: A feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented.
For example: "so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors"
More words with the same mistake
Two letters where there should be one:
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