double consonants
Paired identical sounds
Double consonants are two identical consonant letters appearing consecutively in a word: the *tt* in *butter*, the *ss* in *possible*, the *ll* in *bell*.
In English spelling, they typically signal that the preceding vowel is short, distinguishing *hoping* from *hopping* or *diner* from *dinner*.
Double consonants often arise when adding suffixes to words ending in a single consonant: *run* becomes *running*, *big* becomes *bigger*.
Despite the doubled letters, only one consonant sound is usually pronounced.
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