SpellingIQ

How to spell questionnaire

questionnaire

Not questionaire.

The trap

Double letters

The word questionnaire has two Ns, and questionaire keeps the single N of question. The longer word does not inherit the shorter one's spelling; it has its own.

Doubled letters are part of how a word is built, not decoration. The reason behind a double varies from word to word. Often it is an added ending, sometimes the word's history, so the double is learned along with the word.

What it means

noun. A set of printed questions for a survey.

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