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How to spell attendance

Attendance is spelled A-T-T-E-N-D-A-N-C-E. The part people get wrong: double T.

hear itat·tend·ance/ə'tɛndəns/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: A record of who is present at an event or place.

In a sentence: The teacher took attendance to see who was in class today.

The part people get wrong

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

Same family: attending, attendant, attention, attentive. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Attendance” comes from the Old French word “atendre,” meaning “to give heed to” or “to pay attention.” The suffix “-ance” turns the verb “attend” into a noun that names the action or state of being present.

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