Question

Which of the following words is spelt correctly?
A) Reccommended
B) Recomended
C) Recommended
D) Reccomended

Answer 1

Hint: We have to identify the correctly spelt word from the given words. Spelling is very important in written communication. Wrong spellings will make the sentences unclear and give an uninformed impression about us to the reader.

Complete answer:
The spelling and pronunciation of a word may differ. For e.g. the spelling of the word ‘honour’ starts with ‘h’ but it is pronounced as ‘aw-ner’. Instead of the sound of ‘h’ its pronunciation starts with the sound of ‘o’. Therefore it is not necessary that the spelling will help us to pronounce the word correctly or vice versa.

- In option A there is double ‘c’, in option B there is a single ‘m’ and in option D there is again a double ‘c’. Therefore, all these options are incorrect.
- The correct answer is option c) Recommended. Recommended basically refers to any advice, setting or suggestion that is good or suitable in general. It implies - ‘advocated’, ‘endorsed’, etc. It is the past form of the word ‘recommend’. For e.g. These computer settings are recommended by the system.
Its pronunciation is re-kə-ˈmen-dəd.
- In this we can see that ‘com’ in the spelling is pronounced as ‘kam’ and ‘re’ is not pronounced as ‘ree’. Therefore, we can conclude that it's not necessary to find any similarity between spelling and pronunciation.

Thus the correct answer is option ‘C’.

Note: The pronunciation of a word is related to an understanding of vowels, consonants, syllables, syllable stress etc. The spellings on the other hand are concerned with suffixes, prefixes, singular, plural and verb forms etc.