Spelling
Sucess or success?
Success is the right spelling. Sucess is a common misspelling of it.
SUCESS has one C where SUCCESS has two.
Why people write SUCESS
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).
Two Cs and two Ss: suCCeSS.
How often SUCCESS is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), SUCESS appears 3 times for every 1,000 SUCCESS, about once for every 333 correct uses.
Is SUCESS a word?
No. SUCESS is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. SUCCESS is in all three and scores 11 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What success means
noun: The attainment of something desired or intended.
For example: "let's call heads a success and tails a failure"
More words with the same mistake
One letter where there should be two:
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