Spelling
Succesfully or successfully?
Successfully is the right spelling. Succesfully is a common misspelling of it.
SUCCESFULLY has one S where SUCCESSFULLY has two.
Why people write SUCCESFULLY
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, then two Ls: suCCeSSfuLLy.
How often SUCCESSFULLY is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), SUCCESFULLY appears 9 times for every 1,000 SUCCESSFULLY, about once for every 111 correct uses.
Is SUCCESFULLY a word?
No. SUCCESFULLY is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. SUCCESSFULLY is in all three and scores 22 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What successfully means
In a successful manner.
More words with the same mistake
One letter where there should be two:
More spelling help
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