Spelling
Commision or commission?
Commission is the right spelling. Commision is a common misspelling of it.
COMMISION has one S where COMMISSION has two.
Why people write COMMISION
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).
Say the word slowly in syllables and write each syllable separately: the doubled letter usually sits where two syllables meet.
How often COMMISSION is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), COMMISION appears 4 times for every 1,000 COMMISSION, about once for every 250 correct uses.
Is COMMISION a word?
No. COMMISION is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. COMMISSION is in all three and scores 16 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What commission means
noun: A special group delegated to consider some matter.
More words with the same mistake
One letter where there should be two:
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