# accommodation

> English word · Noun · IPA /əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/ · frequency rank #6,430

## Definitions
1. Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or students, etc.
2. Adaptation or adjustment.
3. Adaptation or adjustment.
4. Adaptation or adjustment.
5. Adaptation or adjustment.
6. Adaptation or adjustment.
7. Adaptation or adjustment.
8. Adaptation or adjustment.
9. Adaptation or adjustment.
10. Adaptation or adjustment.
11. Adaptation or adjustment.
12. Adaptation or adjustment.
13. The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
14. Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.

## Etymology
From French accommodation, from Latin accommodātiō (“adjustment, accommodation, compliance”), from accommodō (“adapt, put in order”). Superficially accommodate + -ion. The sense of "lodging" was first attested in 1600.

## Easily confused with
- **accommodations** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/accommodation-vs-accommodations)
- **accommodating** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/accommodating-vs-accommodation)

## Common misspellings (16)
`accmomodation`, `accommdoation`, `accommoadtion`, `accommodaiton`, `accommodasion`, `accommodatino`, `accommodationn`, `accommodatoin`, `accommodattion`, `accommoddation`, `accommodtaion`, `accomodation`, `accomomdation`, `acocmmodation`, `acommodation`, `cacommodation`

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