Spelling
Committment or commitment?
Commitment is the right spelling. Committment is a common misspelling of it.
COMMITTMENT doubles the T, which COMMITMENT has once.
Why people write COMMITTMENT
After seeing many words with doubled letters, it is natural to double one that should stay single, especially before an ending.
Commit + ment: one T, because no vowel follows it.
How often COMMITMENT is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), COMMITTMENT appears 10 times for every 1,000 COMMITMENT, about once for every 100 correct uses.
Is COMMITTMENT a word?
No. COMMITTMENT is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. COMMITMENT is in all three and scores 18 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What commitment means
noun: The trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose.
For example: "a man of energy and commitment"
More words with the same mistake
Two letters where there should be one:
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