How to spell accommodate

hear itac·com·mo·date/ə'kɑmə,deɪt/verbPrefixes and work

What it means: To provide enough space for something.

In a sentence: The big car can accommodate seven people for the trip.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double c and double m. Often misspelled as acommodate or accomodate.

Same family: accommodation, accommodating, accommodated, accommodations, accommodative. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Accommodate” comes from Latin *accommodare*, meaning “to fit to” or “make suitable.” The double C and double M in the English spelling often cause trouble, so some people remember it with the phrase “accommodate comes with two cots and two mattresses.”

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