Spelling
Succesful or successful?
Successful is the right spelling. Succesful is a common misspelling of it.
SUCCESFUL has one S where SUCCESSFUL has two.
Why people write SUCCESFUL
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, two Ss and one L: suCCeSSful.
How often SUCCESSFUL is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), SUCCESFUL appears 7 times for every 1,000 SUCCESSFUL, about once for every 143 correct uses.
Is SUCCESFUL a word?
No. SUCCESFUL is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. SUCCESSFUL is in all three and scores 17 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What successful means
adjective: Having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome.
For example: "a successful architect"
More words with the same mistake
One letter where there should be two:
More spelling help
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