Spelling
Transfered or transferred?
Transferred is the right spelling. Transfered is a common misspelling of it.
TRANSFERED has one R where TRANSFERRED has two.
Why people write TRANSFERED
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).
Transfer + R + ed: the R doubles before -ed.
How often TRANSFERRED is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), TRANSFERED appears 32 times for every 1,000 TRANSFERRED, about once for every 31 correct uses.
Is TRANSFERED a word?
No. TRANSFERED is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. TRANSFERRED is in all three and scores 15 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What transferred means
verb: To convey from one source to another.
For example: "I transferred my stock holdings to my children"
More words with the same mistake
One letter where there should be two:
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