How to spell accommodate
accommodate
Not acommodate or accomodate.
The trap
The word accommodate has two Cs and two Ms, and acommodate and accomodate each lose one of the pairs. A doubled consonant sounds just like a single one, so the ear gives no warning about either.
Doubled letters are part of how a word is built, not decoration. The reason behind a double varies from word to word. Often it is an added ending, sometimes the word's history, so the double is learned along with the word.
What it means
verb. To provide lodging or space for.
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