Spelling
Occurences or occurrences?
Occurrences is the right spelling. Occurences is a common misspelling of it.
OCCURENCES has one R where OCCURRENCES has two.
Why people write OCCURENCES
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).
Occur + R + ences: double the R, and end in -ENCES.
How often OCCURRENCES is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), OCCURENCES appears 82 times for every 1,000 OCCURRENCES, about once for every 12 correct uses.
Is OCCURENCES a word?
No. OCCURENCES is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. OCCURRENCES is in all three and scores 17 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What occurrences means
noun: An event that happens.
More words with the same mistake
One letter where there should be two:
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