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.
