A third spelling — Synonyms & Antonyms Aptitude Question
A third spelling: Choose the correctly spelt word: Answer and worked solution on CodeKairo.
- Topic: Synonyms & Antonyms
- Section: Verbal Ability
- Difficulty: Medium
- Time target: 40 seconds
Question
Choose the correctly spelt word:
Options
- Occurence
- Occurrance
- Ocurrence
- Occurrence
Show the answer and the worked solution
Correct answer: D. Occurrence
Worked solution
- The correct spelling is occurrence: double c, double r, ending -ence.
Answer: Occurrence.
The idea
Verbs ending in a stressed short vowel plus one consonant double it before a suffix: occur → occurred, occurrence.
Shortcut. Check three things at once — cc, rr and the -ence ending; only one option has all three.
Common trap. "Occurence" — the commonest misspelling, with a single r; occur doubles its r before -ence, as in occurred.