How to spell inoculate
inoculate
Not innoculate or inocculate.
The trap
The word inoculate has one N and one C, and the misspelling innoculate doubles the N. Innocent, which does have two Ns, sits close by in the mind and lends its double to a word that has none.
Not every consonant doubles. A double is there for a reason: often an added ending, sometimes the word's history. Where neither applies, the letter stays single.
What it means
verb. to treat with a vaccine
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