Spelling
Commitee or committee?
Committee is the right spelling. Commitee is a common misspelling of it.
COMMITEE has one T where COMMITTEE has two.
Why people write COMMITEE
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).
A committee of doubles: double M, double T, double E.
How often COMMITTEE is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), COMMITEE appears 2 times for every 1,000 COMMITTEE, about once for every 500 correct uses.
Is COMMITEE a word?
No. COMMITEE is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. COMMITTEE is in all three and scores 15 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What committee means
noun: A special group delegated to consider some matter.
For example: "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours"
More words with the same mistake
One letter where there should be two:
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