Spelling
Prefered or preferred?
Preferred is the right spelling. Prefered is a common misspelling of it.
PREFERED has one R where PREFERRED has two.
Why people write PREFERED
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).
Prefer + R + ed: double the R, because the stress is on -FER.
How often PREFERRED is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), PREFERED appears 26 times for every 1,000 PREFERRED, about once for every 38 correct uses.
Is PREFERED a word?
No. PREFERED is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. PREFERRED is in all three and scores 15 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What preferred means
To hold in higher regard or esteem.
More words with the same mistake
One letter where there should be two:
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