How to spell accurate

hear itac·cu·rate/'ækjərɪt/adjectiveRules and real life

What it means: Correct and precise in details or measurements.

In a sentence: An accurate clock tells the right time.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double c, and an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as acurate or accurite.

Same family: accuracy, accurately, inaccurate, inaccuracy, precise. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Accurate” comes from the Latin word *accuratus*, meaning “done with care,” from *ad-* (“to”) and *cura* (“care”). So being accurate originally meant doing something with careful attention.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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