Spelling
Accomodate or accommodate?
Accommodate is the right spelling. Accomodate is a common misspelling of it.
ACCOMODATE has one M where ACCOMMODATE has two.
Why people write ACCOMODATE
Double letters are not heard when the word is said, so it is easy to write only one. The doubling usually comes from how the word was built: a prefix that ends in the same letter as the root (ac + commodate), or a final consonant doubled before an ending (begin, beginning).
It is big enough to accommodate two Cs and two Ms.
How often ACCOMMODATE is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), ACCOMODATE appears 89 times for every 1,000 ACCOMMODATE, about once for every 11 correct uses.
Is ACCOMODATE a word?
No. ACCOMODATE is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. ACCOMMODATE is in all three and scores 20 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What accommodate means
verb: To provide room for.
For example: "Can you accommodate me with a rental car?"
More words with the same mistake
One letter where there should be two:
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