Doubling Consonants and dropping E

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If there is a short vowel in a single syllable word, the consonant is doubled when a suffix beginning with a vowel is added.

The rule cannot be used with words without suffixes: habit panel
robin model

With words of more than one syllable, the doubling rule is used for consonants after the stressed syllable, but not after the unstressed one.

If the vowel is long and the word ends with E, the E is dropped before adding a suffix with a vowel.

In British(but not US) English, unstressed syllables ending in L double the consonant.