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How to spell approval

Approval is spelled A-P-P-R-O-V-A-L. The part people get wrong: double P.

What it means: The act of accepting something as satisfactory.

In a sentence: The teacher gave her approval for the art project. ▶

The part people get wrong

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

Same family: approved, approving, disapprove, approval rating, authorization. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Approval” comes from the Old French word “aprover,” meaning “to assent to or prove true.” It’s built on the verb “approve” plus the noun-forming suffix “-al,” turning the action of approving into the thing itself—the act of approval.

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