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How to spell appraisal

What it means: An expert estimation of the quality or value of something.

In a sentence: The teacher gave my art project an appraisal and said it was fantastic! ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double p, and an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as apraisal or aprraisal.

Same family: appraise, appraised, appraising, reappraisal, valuation. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Appraisal” comes from the verb “appraise,” which traces back to Old French "apreisier," meaning “to value” or “to set a price.” It is closely related to the word “appreciate,” which originally also meant “to set a value on.”

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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