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How to spell accept

Accept is spelled A-C-C-E-P-T. The part people get wrong: double C.

hear itac·cept/æk'sɛpt/verbRules and real life

What it means: To agree to receive something.

In a sentence: I was happy to accept the birthday party invitation from my friend.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double c.

Not to be confused with: except, a different word.

Same family: accepts, accepted, accepting, acceptable, acceptance. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Accept” comes from Latin *accipere*, meaning “to take to oneself” (*ad-* ‘to’ + *capere* ‘take’). It is closely related to “except,” which originally meant “to take out,” so the two words share a root but have opposite directions in meaning.

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