Spelling
Recomend or recommend?
Recommend is the right spelling. Recomend is a common misspelling of it.
RECOMEND has one M where RECOMMEND has two.
Why people write RECOMEND
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).
Re + commend: one C, two Ms.
How often RECOMMEND is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), RECOMEND appears 11 times for every 1,000 RECOMMEND, about once for every 91 correct uses.
Is RECOMEND a word?
No. RECOMEND is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. RECOMMEND is in all three and scores 16 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What recommend means
verb: To commend again.
For example: "The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day"
More words with the same mistake
One letter where there should be two:
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