Identifying the Double Consonants in a Word

Oftentimes, we come across words having double Consonants, but we do not know either how to pronounce or spell such words.

What are Double Consonants?

Double Consonants can be seen as when teo consonant sounds appear twice in a word with any vowel sound in between them. Also it is the appearance of two double Consonant sounds in a word. Going back to our spelling power which indicates the act of spelling words correctly, the case of of double Consonant comes in place. Most of our pupils/students and teachers may not be acquainted with this double consonants in a word.
We actually finds it difficult as learners to spell a double consonant word, and pronounce the word. First we might make the mistake of omitting one sound while spelling the word, and we might mispronounce the word seeing the appearance of a doubled or two consonant sounds.

Take Note of the Words with Double Consonants

Some two syllable words have double consonants.
Examples:
Occur (cc)
Summer (mm)

Three syllabic words may be spelled with double consonant.
Examples; Classify (ss)
Mannequin (nn)
Recommend (mm)
Symmetry (mm)

Also some words of your syllables or more have double consonants.
Examples;
Affiliation (ff)
Appropriate (pp)
Insufficient (ff)
Permissible (ss)

Some words have more than one set of double consonant,and we ought to be mindful of such words.
Example:
The word Access. Here we have two sets of double consonants which are (cc) and (ss).

When we look at these words given as examples, we see that all the doubled sounds are consonant sounds.
Identifying the double consonants in each word will aid us all to know, spell and pronounce words correctly.

In these words listed below, kindly indicate the misspelt words by outlining them on the comment section.

Reccommend
Classify
Symmetry
Occurr
Mannequin
Inssuficient

Thank you for being part of this lesson. We will keep exploring other aspects of the spelling power guides which are unknown to us in our next post

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