Spelling
Recomended or recommended?
Recommended is the right spelling. Recomended is a common misspelling of it.
RECOMENDED has one M where RECOMMENDED has two.
Why people write RECOMENDED
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 + commended: one C, two Ms.
How often RECOMMENDED is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), RECOMENDED appears 7 times for every 1,000 RECOMMENDED, about once for every 143 correct uses.
Is RECOMENDED a word?
No. RECOMENDED is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. RECOMMENDED is in all three and scores 19 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What recommended 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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