accommodating
/əˈkɒm.əˌdeɪ.tɪŋ/adjective, verb
accommodating is spelled A-C-C-O-M-M-O-D-A-T-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is accomodating: about 570 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 4 in 10 of all searches for the word. Accommodating is an adjective meaning “Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; helpful”.
How many letters and syllables are in accommodating?
| Letters | 13: A-C-C-O-M-M-O-D-A-T-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.8 times per million words; the 20,906th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, accomodating, about 570 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell accommodating?
Accommodating is spelled A-C-C-O-M-M-O-D-A-T-I-N-G. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 4 in 10 of the searches for accommodating 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 accommodating?
Accommodating appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,906th 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 accommodating?
- /əˈkɒm.əˌdeɪ.tɪŋ/
Accommodating has 5 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-accommodating.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of accommodating
- more accommodating comparative
- most accommodating superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does accommodating mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; helpful.
Richard DeLongpre: I have to say, we were surprised that Principal Gottlieb wasn't more accommodating. Judith Gottlieb: Oh, for God's sake, he's a child. I'm not gonna date him.
- 2
Pliable; easily corrupted.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of accommodate
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Accommodating in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense affording accommodation:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | entgegenkommend, gefällig, zuvorkommend |
| Portuguese | acomodante |
| Spanish | acomodadizo, acomodaticio |
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.