Excellance or excellence?
Did you mean excellence? Here's the right spelling and how to remember it.
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Correct spelling: excellence. Misspelling: excellance.
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Memory tip
Excel + l + ence: double L, and the -ence of excellent.
Why people write “excellance”
The endings -ence and -ance sound identical in speech; this word takes -ence.
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 excellence automatic.
Other misspellings of “excellence”
People also write “excelence”. Here is where each one goes wrong.
“excelence”
Correct spelling: excellence. Misspelling: excelence.
letters the misspelling gets wrong or leaves out letters that shouldn't be there
The misspelling “excelence” is only one letter off: it uses a single L where excellence has a double LL.
What does “excellence” mean?
excellence noun
- the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree
- an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels
“a center of manufacturing excellence”
Synonyms:excellency
Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Full dictionary entry
“Excellence” in a sentence
- The school is known for academic excellence.
- A center of manufacturing excellence.
Is “excellence” a playable word?
21 points in Scrabble · 26 in Words With Friends
- Scrabble (US)
- Scrabble (UK)
- Words With Friends
“excellance” is not accepted in any of these games. See every word you can make from EXCELLENCE.