How to spell available

hear ita·vail·a·ble/ə'veɪləbəl/adjectiveSounds

What it means: Able to be bought, found, or used.

In a sentence: The big red kite is available at the store.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as avaliable or availible.

Same family: unavailable, availability, avail, valuable, value. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Available comes from the older English word 'avail,' meaning 'to be of use or benefit,' which itself comes from Latin 'valere,' meaning 'to be strong or worth something.' Over time, 'available' shifted to describe things or people that are free and ready to be used.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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