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How to spell allergic

Allergic is spelled A-L-L-E-R-G-I-C. The part people get wrong: double L.

What it means: Having a strong reaction to a substance.

In a sentence: Molly is allergic to peanuts, so she cannot eat them. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double l, and an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: allergies, allergenic, allergist, hypoallergenic. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Allergic and allergy both come from Greek roots meaning “other work” (allos ‘other’ + ergon ‘work’), originally used in medicine to describe an unusual reaction of the body; over time, it narrowed to mean the kind of immune overreaction we now call an allergy.

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