Spelling
Roomate or roommate?
Roommate is the right spelling. Roomate is a common misspelling of it.
ROOMATE has one M where ROOMMATE has two.
Why people write ROOMATE
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).
Room + mate: both Ms stay.
How often ROOMMATE is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), ROOMATE appears 91 times for every 1,000 ROOMMATE, about once for every 11 correct uses.
Is ROOMATE a word?
No. ROOMATE is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. ROOMMATE is in all three and scores 12 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What roommate means
One with whom a room is shared.
More words with the same mistake
One letter where there should be two:
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