Rememberance or remembrance?
Did you mean remembrance? Here's the right spelling and how to remember it.
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rememberance
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remembrance
Correct spelling: remembrance. Misspelling: rememberance.
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Memory tip
Remember drops its second E: re-MEM-BRANCE.
Why people write “rememberance”
The misspelling “rememberance” is only one letter off: it adds an extra vowel, E.
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 remembrance automatic.
Other misspellings of “remembrance”
People also write “remembrence”. Here is where each one goes wrong.
“remembrence”
Correct spelling: remembrance. Misspelling: remembrence.
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The endings -ance and -ence sound identical in speech; this word takes -ance.
What does “remembrance” mean?
remembrance noun
- the ability to recall past occurrences
Synonyms:recollectionanamnesis
- a recognition of meritorious service
Synonyms:memorialcommemoration
Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Full dictionary entry
“Remembrance” in a sentence
- They held a minute's silence in remembrance.
Is “remembrance” a playable word?
19 points in Scrabble · 24 in Words With Friends
- Scrabble (US)
- Scrabble (UK)
- Words With Friends
“rememberance” is not accepted in any of these games. See every word you can make from REMEMBRANCE.