How Do You Spell Accommodate — A Quick Spelling Guide

English spelling can be tricky, mainly because the spelling rules conflict with one another. This inconsistency causes many ESL students to misspell words and discourage them from learning more.

Definition of Accommodate

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Accommodate is a verb; its noun form is called accommodation. The definition of the word accommodate as follows:

Make something fit for or change to suit a new goal.
To provide something that you want or need.
Having room for everyone without resulting in an overcrowded space.
To have housing for someone or something.

Let’s take a look at some examples to better understand the word. And also, let’s see the context where to use it.

The conference hall is able to accommodate 150 people at a time.
My college provides accommodation for students who are in need of financial aid.
We have to add more chairs to accommodate the whole family at this table!
I needed an adapter to accommodate the new mount I got for my camera.

And the examples go on. Hopefully, these give a clear idea of the use cases of this new word that you have learned.

Now that you know the meaning and uses of accommodate, we will move on to the correct spelling of the word.

How Do You Spell Accommodate?

Accommodate and accommodation follow the rules that are provided in our guide to English spelling. That’s because words of Latin or Romance origin tend to have double consonants in the middle.

Therefore, accommodate has two “c”s and two “m”s in the middle.

The phonetic transcription of the word is as follows: uh-kAH-muh-dayt.

To Wrap Up

Accommodate is a verb which means to adjust to the needs or desires of somebody or something.

It is derived from the French word accommoda, which means to accommodate somebody or something. And that comes from Latin accomodare, which means to make suitable.