How to spell beautifully

hear itbeau·ti·ful·ly/'bjutəfəlli/adverbHidden vowels

What it means: In a way that is pleasing to look at.

In a sentence: The garden was beautifully filled with colorful flowers.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double l, and an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as beautifuly or beautifuly.

Same family: beautiful, beautify, beauty, beautifulness. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Beautifully comes from the noun “beauty,” which entered English from Old French “beaute,” originally from Latin “bellus,” meaning “pretty” or “handsome.” The adverb ending “-ly” was added later to show “in a beautiful way.”

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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