accommodation
/əˌkɑ.məˈdeɪ.ʃən/noun
accommodation is spelled A-C-C-O-M-M-O-D-A-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is accomodation: about 4,280 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Accommodation is a noun meaning “Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or…”. The plural of accommodation is accommodations.
How many letters and syllables are in accommodation?
| Letters | 13: A-C-C-O-M-M-O-D-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 11 times per million words; the 6,456th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, accomodation, about 4,280 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 accommodation?
Accommodation is spelled A-C-C-O-M-M-O-D-A-T-I-O-N. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for accommodation 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 accommodation?
Accommodation appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,456th 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 accommodation?
- UK /əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/
- US /əˌkɑ.məˈdeɪ.ʃən/
- Australia /əˌkɔm.əˈdæɪ.ʃən/
Accommodation 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)-Vealhurl-accommodation.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Simplificationalizer-accommodation.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with accommodation?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as accommodation from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʃən/):
- situation
- association
- population
- administration
- operation
- organization
- application
- location
- generation
- foundation
- conversation
- investigation
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 accommodation
- accommodations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does accommodation mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
AustraliaUKLodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or students, etc.
I have booked the accommodation for my trip to Paris.
- 2
The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
- 3
A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
- 4
The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
- 5
The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
- 6
Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
- 7
Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
- 8
The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
It is probable to my apprehension, that many of those quotations were intended by the writers of the New Testament as nothing more than accommodations.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate accommodation?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of accommodation: a., accom.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Accommodation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hébergement, logement , accommodation |
| German | Unterkunft, Übernachtung , Anpassung |
| Portuguese | alojamento, hospedagem , acomodamento, acomodação |
| Spanish | alojamiento, hospedaje , acomodación, acomodamiento |
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.