Words with double letters
Learning English Vocabulary
BBC
4.5 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
How would you recommend people remember which double letters are in accommodation? Catherine and Neil talk about spelling words with double letters, such as 'accommodation'.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.5 | This is a download from BBC Learning English. |
| 0:09.3 | To find out more, visit our website. |
| 0:12.9 | Six-minute vocabulary. |
| 0:15.1 | From BBC LearningEnglish.com. |
| 0:18.9 | Hello and welcome to six-minute vocabulary with me, Catherine. |
| 0:23.3 | And me, Finn. In this program, we're looking at spelling. |
| 0:28.0 | And the area we're spelling we're looking at today is words with double letters. |
| 0:32.6 | Let's start by listening to David. He's a student welfare officer at a university, and he's welcoming a new |
| 0:41.3 | student to the campus. And while you listen to David, here's a question for you. What word means |
| 0:48.1 | the rooms, flats and houses that people live in? Here's David. Congratulations on getting a place at our university. |
| 0:57.8 | It's a brilliant opportunity and I'm sure that you will be happy and successful here. |
| 1:04.5 | I'm here to help you find accommodation. We've got rooms, flats and houses all over the city, but I recommend that you apply as soon as possible so you're not disappointed. |
| 1:18.6 | Here's a list of addresses. |
| 1:24.1 | David there, and we asked what's the word for rooms, flats and houses that people live in? |
| 1:30.6 | And the answer is accommodation. |
| 1:33.7 | It is and accommodation is one of our words with double letters. |
| 1:38.2 | So, Finn, how do you spell accommodation? |
| 1:40.7 | A-C-O-M-T-I-O-T-I-O-N. |
| 1:48.0 | Well done, Finn. |
| 1:49.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:50.0 | Thank you. |
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