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How to spell successor

Successor is spelled S-U-C-C-E-S-S-O-R.

What it means: A person who follows next in order.

In a sentence: Someday, the prince will be the successor to the king. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double c and double s, and an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: successful, successfully, succession, predecessor, succeed. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Successor” comes from Latin *successor*, from *succedere* meaning “to come after or follow.” It’s closely related to the word “success,” because both originally had the idea of something that ‘comes after’—either another person in a role, or a good result that follows your efforts.

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