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How to spell accommodation

Accommodation is spelled A-C-C-O-M-M-O-D-A-T-I-O-N. The part people get wrong: double C and double M.

hear itac·com·mo·da·tion/ə,kɑmə'deɪʃən/nounPrefixes and work

What it means: A place where someone can stay, live, or sleep.

In a sentence: We found a cozy cabin for our vacation accommodation.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double c and double m, and an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

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

Where it comes from: “Accommodation” comes from the Latin word *accommodare*, meaning “to make fit” or “to adapt.” It originally referred to fitting or adjusting something, and only later came to commonly mean a place where people can stay, like a room or hotel.

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