How to spell commit

hear itcom·mit/kə'mɪt/verbRules and real life

What it means: To give entirely to a specific cause or activity.

In a sentence: I will commit to reading for 20 minutes every day.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double m. Often misspelled as comit or committe.

Same family: commitment, committed, committing, recommit, noncommittal. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Commit comes from Latin *committere*, meaning ‘to join together’ or ‘to entrust.’ Over time, its meaning broadened in English to include both positive senses (commit to a goal) and negative ones (commit a crime).

Patterns it uses: Double the consonant before a suffix?

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