Spelling
Neccessary or necessary?
Necessary is the right spelling. Neccessary is a common misspelling of it.
NECCESSARY doubles the C, which NECESSARY has once.
Why people write NECCESSARY
After seeing many words with doubled letters, it is natural to double one that should stay single, especially before an ending.
One Collar and two Sleeves: one C, two Ss.
How often NECESSARY is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), NECCESSARY appears 3 times for every 1,000 NECESSARY, about once for every 333 correct uses.
Is NECCESSARY a word?
No. NECCESSARY is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. NECESSARY is in all three and scores 14 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What necessary means
adjective: Absolutely essential.
More words with the same mistake
Two letters where there should be one:
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