Spelling
Targetting or targeting?
Targeting is the right spelling. Targetting is a common misspelling of it.
TARGETTING doubles the T, which TARGETING has once.
Why people write TARGETTING
After seeing many words with doubled letters, it is natural to double one that should stay single, especially before an ending.
Check the base word first: if the base has one letter (until, not untill), the longer word usually keeps one too.
How often TARGETING is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), TARGETTING appears 31 times for every 1,000 TARGETING, about once for every 32 correct uses.
Is TARGETTING a word?
No. TARGETTING is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. TARGETING is in all three and scores 11 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What targeting means
To make a goal of.
More words with the same mistake
Two letters where there should be one:
More spelling help
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