How to spell exceed
exceed
Exceed is spelled E-X-C-E-E-D.
Not excede.
Why is exceed easy to misspell?
The word exceed ends -ceed, and the misspelling excede gives it the -cede of recede and concede. Exceed is one of the three common words that take -ceed, with proceed and succeed.
This is one of the few endings English settles outright. Only exceed, proceed and succeed take -ceed, and only supersede takes -sede; everything else is -cede.
What does exceed mean?
v. to be greater than
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