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How to spell advanced

What it means: Far along in development or time.

In a sentence: The advanced robot could do all my homework! ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as advansed or advenced.

Same family: advancement, advancing, advancedly, advancedness, advanced-level. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Advanced comes from the verb advance, which arrived in English from Old French "avancier," meaning to move forward. Over time, the word shifted from a physical sense of moving ahead to also describe high or complex levels of skill, knowledge, or technology.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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