Leaf Spelling Dictionary

acumminate doubles the m after the stress

stress-doubleA doubled consonant is the standard English signal for a short stressed vowel. Acuminate has a long stressed vowel and no doubled consonant anywhere in it.

heard asacumminate
spelledacuminate
saiduh-KYOO-min-ut

The spelling is acuminate, with one m.

Stress lands squarely on the syllable before this m, and doubling after a stressed syllable is such a reliable English habit that the hand does it without being asked. Hammer, summer, common. What blocks it here is the length of the vowel: KYOO is long, and a long vowel takes a single consonant after it.

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