Assasination or assassination?
Did you mean assassination? Here's the right spelling and how to remember it.
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Correct spelling: assassination. Misspelling: assasination.
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Memory tip
It has four Ss: ass + ass + ination.
Why people write “assasination”
The misspelling “assasination” is only one letter off: it uses a single S where assassination has a double SS.
Spell-checkers catch the mistake in a document, but not in a handwritten note, a text message or a word game. Writing the word out a few times while saying the tricky part aloud is the quickest way to make assassination automatic.
Other misspellings of “assassination”
People also write “assassanation”. Here is where each one goes wrong.
“assassanation”
Correct spelling: assassination. Misspelling: assassanation.
letters the misspelling gets wrong or leaves out letters that shouldn't be there
The misspelling “assassanation” is only one letter off: it writes A where assassination has I, an easy slip because in an unstressed syllable both vowels can sound like the same soft "uh".
What does “assassination” mean?
assassination noun
- an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation
Synonyms:blackwash
- murder of a public figure by surprise attack
Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Full dictionary entry
“Assassination” in a sentence
- The assassination shocked the nation.
Is “assassination” a playable word?
13 points in Scrabble · 15 in Words With Friends
- Scrabble (US)
- Scrabble (UK)
- Words With Friends
“assasination” is not accepted in any of these games. See every word you can make from ASSASSINATION.