accommodatingvsaccommodationsWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: accommodating is a adjective, accommodations is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“accommodating” is an adjective and “accommodations” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#20,825
“accommodating” frequency rank
#15,318
“accommodations” frequency rank
36143
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature accommodating accommodations
Definition Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; helpful. accommodation, lodging

Letter map: accommodating vs accommodations

Shared letters muted; letters that set accommodating and accommodations apart highlighted. Shared run: 12.

13 ch
accommodating
14 ch
accommodations

Grammar separator: accommodating vs accommodations

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: accommodating is anadjective and accommodationsanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36143, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

accommodating is recorded at frequency rank #20,825, classified as anadj, pronounced /əˈkɒm.əˌdeɪ.tɪŋ/. accommodations is at rank #15,318, tagged as anoun.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 36143, this pair ranks #305,798 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of accommodating vs accommodations

Shared letters: acdimnot. Private to "accommodating": g. Private to "accommodations": s.

"accommodating" · 13 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVCVCC  ·  "accommodations" · 14 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVCVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • accommodatingaccmomodating · accommdoating · accommoadting · accommodaitng · accommodatign · accommodatingg · accommodatinng · accommodatnig
  • accommodationsaccmomodations · accommdoations · accommoadtions · accommodaitons · accommodatinos · accommodationns · accommodationss · accommodatiosn

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "accommodating" for "accommodations" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "accommodating" is an adjective and "accommodations" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary English text, does "accommodating" or "accommodations" show up more?
"accommodations" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,318 in our English list, against #20,825 for "accommodating". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "accommodating" and "accommodations".

  • Full dictionary entry for "accommodating" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "accommodations" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #305,798 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "accommodating" and "accommodations" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accommodating vs accommodation". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #305,798 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list