Spelling
Occuring or occurring?
Occurring is the right spelling. Occuring is a common misspelling of it.
OCCURING has one R where OCCURRING has two.
Why people write OCCURING
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 + ing: double the R, because the stress is on -CUR.
How often OCCURRING is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), OCCURING appears 71 times for every 1,000 OCCURRING, about once for every 14 correct uses.
Is OCCURING a word?
No. OCCURING is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. OCCURRING is in all three and scores 14 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What occurring means
To take place.
More words with the same mistake
One letter where there should be two:
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