Condolescence or Condolence

[jakegim]

Hi dude

A boss of my partnership companies passed away recently so I'm going to write a message to the company. but I'm confused what word is right between condolescence and condolence. my dictionary does not say "Condolescene"

[Anglika]

Welcome to the forums.

You have clearly looked up the word, so which one do you think is the one to use?

http://www.onelook.com/?w=condolence&ls=a

[jakegim]

OK Thanks

But I have a question, usually I visit to Google Books to check spelling whenever I am confused. the website posts published books that were corrected by speller. so most of contents could be reliable I think.
I can find several examples on the website with Condolescene even though the website does not say it can't find the word
condolescence - Google Books

Welcome to the forums.

You have clearly looked up the word, so which one do you think is the one to use?

condolence - OneLook Dictionary Search

[Tdol]

Mind you, most of those texts using 'condolescence' are not by native speakers. I'd also use the plural and offer my condolences.

[Anglika]

OK Thanks

But I have a question, usually I visit to Google Books to check spelling whenever I am confused. the website posts published books that were corrected by speller. so most of contents could be reliable I think.
I can find several examples on the website with Condolescene even though the website does not say it can't find the word
condolescence - Google Books

Don't - use a dictionary site - far more reliable. Many writers cannot spell.

[Tdol]

Have you tried these sites if you want to search for actual usage: British National Corpus (BYU-BNC) Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)

Asd they're designed for the purpose, they have a lot of useful tools.