How to spell committee

hear itcom·mit·tee/kə'mɪti/nounRules and real life

What it means: A group formed to discuss or decide on something.

In a sentence: The school made a committee to plan the fun fair.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double m and double t and double e. Often misspelled as commitee or comittee.

Same family: committees, committee member, committee chair, subcommittee, board. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Committee” comes from Latin via early modern English, related to the verb “commit,” originally meaning a group of people entrusted with a task. The double m and double t in the spelling show an older pattern of forming nouns from verbs by emphasizing the middle consonants.

Patterns it uses: Double the consonant before a suffix?

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