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How to spell committee

Committee is spelled C-O-M-M-I-T-T-E-E. Three doubles: MM, TT and EE, com-mit-tee.

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.

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.

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