Spelling
Accomodation or accommodation?
Accommodation is the right spelling. Accomodation is a common misspelling of it.
ACCOMODATION has one M where ACCOMMODATION has two.
Why people write ACCOMODATION
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).
Big enough for two Cs and two Ms: aCCoMModation.
How often ACCOMMODATION is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), ACCOMODATION appears 52 times for every 1,000 ACCOMMODATION, about once for every 19 correct uses.
Is ACCOMODATION a word?
No. ACCOMODATION is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. ACCOMMODATION is in all three and scores 22 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What accommodation means
noun: The act of accommodating.
For example: "they reached an accommodation with Japan"
More words with the same mistake
One letter where there should be two:
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