How to spell background

Background is spelled B-A-C-K-G-R-O-U-N-D.

hear itback·ground/'bæk,graʊnd/nounRules and real life

What it means: The part of a scene behind the main objects.

In a sentence: The painting has a bright blue sky in the background.

Same family: backgrounded, backgrounding, backgrounds, background (noun), background (adjective). If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Background originally comes from the noun meaning the part of a picture or scene that is farthest from the viewer. Over time, English speakers turned it into a verb meaning ‘to push something into the background’ or ‘to make it seem less important.’

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