Spelling
Matress or mattress?
Mattress is the right spelling. Matress is a common misspelling of it.
MATRESS has one T where MATTRESS has two.
Why people write MATRESS
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 Ts and two Ss: maTTreSS.
How often MATTRESS is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), MATRESS appears 35 times for every 1,000 MATTRESS, about once for every 29 correct uses.
Is MATRESS a word?
No. MATRESS is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. MATTRESS is in all three and scores 10 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What mattress means
A large pad filled with resilient material used on or as a bed.
More words with the same mistake
One letter where there should be two:
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