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accommodationist

noun

accommodationist is spelled A-C-C-O-M-M-O-D-A-T-I-O-N-I-S-T: 16 letters. It appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, accommodationist means “Someone who tries to accommodate an opposition, usually a political one” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of accommodationist is accommodationists.

How many letters and syllables are in accommodationist?

Letters16: A-C-C-O-M-M-O-D-A-T-I-O-N-I-S-T
In writingabout once in every 95 million words; the 313,259th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is accommodationist?

Accommodationist appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th 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).

Forms of accommodationist

  • accommodationists plural
  • accommodationalist

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does accommodationist mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Someone who tries to accommodate an opposition, usually a political one.

  2. 2

    Someone who argues that freedom of religion does not necessarily force a government to demonstrably prove nonestablishment (for example, an argument that state-funded schools don't have to ban the presence of religious things (e.g., Bibles, Torahs, Qur'ans, voluntary prayers) to prove governmental neutrality about religion and nonreligion).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Accommodationist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense someone who accommodates opposition and compromises their own stance:

LanguageWords
Portugueseacomodacionista

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.

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