How to spell committee
committee
Not commitee or comittee.
The trap
The word committee doubles three letters: two Ms, two Ts and two Es, and commitee is the version that drops a T. That is more doubling than the eye expects in one word, so one pair tends to go.
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
n. a group appointed for a function
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