accommodate
/əˈkɑməˌdeɪt/verb
accommodate is spelled A-C-C-O-M-M-O-D-A-T-E. The wrong spelling people search most is accomadate: about 670 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Accommodate is a verb meaning “To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt”.
How many letters and syllables are in accommodate?
| Letters | 11: A-C-C-O-M-M-O-D-A-T-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 10 times per million words; the 6,884th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, accomadate, about 670 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell accommodate?
Accommodate is spelled A-C-C-O-M-M-O-D-A-T-E. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for accommodate in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is accommodate?
Accommodate appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 6,884th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce accommodate?
- UK /əˈkɒməˌdeɪt/
- UK [əˈkʰɒməˌdeɪt]
- US /əˈkɑməˌdeɪt/
Accommodate has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-accommodate.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with accommodate?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as accommodate from its last stressed vowel (/ɑmədeɪt/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of accommodate
- accommodates present, singular, he/she/it
- accommodating participle, present
- accommodated participle, past
- accomodate
- more accommodate comparative
- most accommodate superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does accommodate mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
to accommodate ourselves to circumstances
- 2
To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
to accommodate differences
- 3
To provide housing for.
to accommodate an old friend for a week
- 4
To provide sufficient space for.
- 5
To contain comfortably; to have space for.
This venue accommodates three hundred people.
- 6
To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
to accommodate a friend with a loan
- 7
To do a favor or service for; to oblige.
- 8
To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.
to accommodate prophecy to events
adjective
- 1
obsoleteSuitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Accommodate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | machen, endigen , in Übereinstimmung bringen, anpassen , unterbringen, beherbergen |
| Portuguese | acomodar |
| Spanish | acomodar , acoger, albergar , acomodarse a |
| French | héberger , s'accommoder , accommoder |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.