Spelling
Accomodations or accommodations?
Accommodations is the right spelling. Accomodations is a common misspelling of it.
ACCOMODATIONS has one M where ACCOMMODATIONS has two.
Why people write ACCOMODATIONS
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: aCCoMModations.
How often ACCOMMODATIONS is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), ACCOMODATIONS appears 118 times for every 1,000 ACCOMMODATIONS, about once for every 8 correct uses.
Is ACCOMODATIONS a word?
No. ACCOMODATIONS is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. ACCOMMODATIONS is in all three and scores 23 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What accommodations 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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