Spelling
Occassionally or occasionally?
Occasionally is the right spelling. Occassionally is a common misspelling of it.
OCCASSIONALLY doubles the S, which OCCASIONALLY has once.
Why people write OCCASSIONALLY
After seeing many words with doubled letters, it is natural to double one that should stay single, especially before an ending.
Occasion (two Cs, one S) + ally.
How often OCCASIONALLY is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), OCCASSIONALLY appears 18 times for every 1,000 OCCASIONALLY, about once for every 56 correct uses.
Is OCCASSIONALLY a word?
No. OCCASSIONALLY is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. OCCASIONALLY is in all three and scores 19 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What occasionally means
In an occasional manner.
More words with the same mistake
Two letters where there should be one:
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