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Letters are only doubled at the end - not in the middle of words.

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The past tense of "open" has one "p" because the word follows the rule for doubling consonants before adding a suffix starting with a vowel. When adding "-ed" to "open," we don't double the "p" since the word ends in an unstressed syllable.

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