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How to spell approach

Approach is spelled A-P-P-R-O-A-C-H. Two P's after the A, then OA, as in coach and road.

What it means: To move closer to something.

In a sentence: The cat watched the butterfly approach the flower. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double p.

Same family: approaches, approachability, approachable, approaching, approached. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Approach” comes from Old French “aprochier,” from Latin “ad-” (to, toward) plus “prope” (near). So the original idea of the word is literally “to move toward something and come near it.”

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