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Popular Words ending in Double Consonants that can be Single
by Tom Zurinskas - See Truespel.com for free tutorials
These words are in the top 5,000 as counted by Collins Cobuild
The total database is 15,392,580 quxg ua about 90% of words on a page
Results show that about 2% of words on a page  end in dobule cosnonants
and about half could possibly be changed to single.
OK for single consonant
ending double instances % words % OK  %
1 ll 213,001 71% 47 44% 119,599 56%
2 ss 64,588 22% 50 47% 17,762 28%
3 ff 18,022 6% 5 5% 3,957 22%
4 dd 2,560 1% 2 2% 0 0%
5 gg 665 0% 1 1% 665 100%
6 rr 521 0% 1 1% 521 100%
Totals = 299,357 100% 106 100% 142,504 48%
% of total database  = 2% 2% 1%
subtotal instances - 299,357
subtotal  words = 106
ending word insstances yes
1 dd add 1,490 yes
2 dd odd 1,070 yes
3 ff off 14,065 no
4 ff staff 2,008 yes
5 ff stuff 1,193 yes
6 ff stiff 464 yes
7 ff cliff 292 yes
8 gg egg 665 yes
9 ll all 64,138 no
10 ll will 36,678 yes
11 ll well 23,529 yes
12 ll still 16,322 yes
13 ll small 9,312 no
14 ll tell 8,026 yes
15 ll full 4,833 yes
16 ll I'll 4,468 yes
17 ll call 4,260 no
18 ll shall 4,085 yes
19 ll wall 2,474 no
20 ll you'll 2,139 yes
21 ll hall 2,107 no
22 ll fell 2,053 yes
23 ll fall 1,923 no
24 ll bill 1,796 yes
25 ll we'll 1,770 yes
26 ll hell 1,681 yes
27 ll ball 1,577 no
28 ll till 1,395 yes
29 ll kill 1,379 yes
30 ll hill 1,227 yes
31 ll pull 1,180 yes
32 ll tall 1,167 no
33 ll ill 1,110 yes
34 ll smell 1,093 yes
35 ll sell 937 yes
36 ll they'll 801 yes
37 ll fill 746 yes
38 ll bell 696 yes
39 ll he'll 680 yes
40 ll skill 675 yes
41 ll cell 655 yes
42 ll dull 580 yes
43 ll recall 532 no
44 ll it'll 531 yes
45 ll overall 529 no
46 ll roll 508 no
47 ll shell 505 yes
48 ll football 471 no
49 ll bull 448 yes
50 ll spell 376 yes
51 ll summerhill 351 yes
52 ll she'll 348 yes
53 ll doll 319 no
54 ll skull 297 yes
55 ll Churchill 294 yes
56 rr burr 521 yes
57 ss less 8328 no
58 ss across 5050 no
59 ss miss 4101 yes
60 ss business 4047 no
61 ss class 3777 yes
62 ss process 2677 no
63 ss press 2424 no
64 ss glass 2252 yes
65 ss unless 2151 no
66 ss mass 2008 yes
67 ss success 1762 no
68 ss pass 1761 yes
69 ss dress 1510 no
70 ss grass 1488 yes
71 ss loss 1365 no
72 ss progress 1259 no
73 ss cross 1114 no
74 ss guess 1089 no
75 ss nevertheless 1027 no
76 ss darkness 971 no
77 ss discuss 882 no
78 ss address 850 no
79 ss express 843 no
80 ss access 732 no
81 ss stress 652 no
82 ss congress 624 no
83 ss consciousness 622 no
84 ss illness 606 no
85 ss happiness 512 no
86 ss mess 502 no
87 ss kiss 502 yes
88 ss boss 498 no
89 ss endless 482 no
90 ss ness 465 no
91 ss Swiss 434 yes
92 ss awareness 425 no
93 ss working-class 414 yes
94 ss witness 403 no
95 ss gross 389 no
96 ss middle-class 388 yes
97 ss useless 373 no
98 ss weakness 371 no
99 ss brass 338 yes
100 ss possess 325 no
101 ss helpless 325 no
102 ss excess 303 no
103 ss fuss 299 yes
104 ss goodness 297 no
105 ss mistress 293 no
106 ss sickness 278 no