Spelling
Roomates or roommates?
Roommates is the right spelling. Roomates is a common misspelling of it.
ROOMATES has one M where ROOMMATES has two.
Why people write ROOMATES
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 + mates: both Ms stay.
How often ROOMMATES is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), ROOMATES appears 102 times for every 1,000 ROOMMATES, about once for every 10 correct uses.
Is ROOMATES a word?
No. ROOMATES is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. ROOMMATES is in all three and scores 13 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What roommates 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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