Spelling: Double consonants

If a root word ends in a consonant, adding a suffix will sometimes require that you double the base word’s final consonant. How do you know when to double the consonant?

Consider the following examples, where doubled consonants are underlined.

• shipment
• shipped
• muddy
• fitful
• fittest
• waiting
• greenest

Now take a look at some larger words, whose base forms have more than one syllable.

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