How to spell campaign

hear itcam·paign/kæm'peɪn/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: A series of actions to achieve a goal.

In a sentence: We joined the campaign to clean up the park.

The part people get wrong

Watch for a silent g. Often misspelled as campain or campagne.

Same family: campaigns, campaigner, campaigning, campaigned, movement. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Campaign” comes from the French word “campagne,” meaning “open country,” which originally referred to military operations carried out in the field. Over time, the word broadened to include organized efforts for political, social, or advertising goals.

Patterns it uses: Silent letters

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