# accommodate

> English word · Verb · IPA /əˈkɒməˌdeɪt/ · frequency rank #6,857

## Definitions
1. To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
2. To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
3. To provide housing for.
4. To provide sufficient space for.
5. To contain comfortably; to have space for.
6. To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
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.
9. To give consideration to; to allow for.
10. To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
11. To change focal length in order to focus at a different distance.

## Etymology
1530s, borrowed from Latin accommodātus, perfect passive participle of accommodō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + commodō (“to provide, lend; to make fit, accommodate”), from con- + modus (“measure, proportion, limit”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix) (see English mode).

## Common misspellings (12)
`accmomodate`, `accommdoate`, `accommoadte`, `accommodaet`, `accommodatte`, `accommoddate`, `accommodtae`, `accomodate`, `accomomdate`, `acocmmodate`, `acommodate`, `cacommodate`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/accommodate