Spelling
Occassion or occasion?
Occasion is the right spelling. Occassion is a common misspelling of it.
OCCASSION doubles the S, which OCCASION has once.
Why people write OCCASSION
After seeing many words with doubled letters, it is natural to double one that should stay single, especially before an ending.
Two Cs, one S: oCCaSion.
How often OCCASION is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), OCCASSION appears 22 times for every 1,000 OCCASION, about once for every 45 correct uses.
Is OCCASSION a word?
No. OCCASSION is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. OCCASION is in all three and scores 12 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What occasion means
noun: An event that occurs at a critical time.
More words with the same mistake
Two letters where there should be one:
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