Spelling
Preceeding or preceding?
Preceding is the right spelling. Preceeding is a common misspelling of it.
PRECEEDING doubles the E, which PRECEDING has once.
Why people write PRECEEDING
After seeing many words with doubled letters, it is natural to double one that should stay single, especially before an ending.
Precede + ing: the -cede ending, one E before the D.
How often PRECEDING is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), PRECEEDING appears 23 times for every 1,000 PRECEDING, about once for every 43 correct uses.
Is PRECEEDING a word?
No. PRECEEDING is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. PRECEDING is in all three and scores 15 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What preceding means
To go before.
More words with the same mistake
Two letters where there should be one:
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