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How to spell campus

What it means: The grounds of a university.

In a sentence: The students play games on the campus lawn. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as campuss or campas.

How learners on Spelling.School have misspelled it: zzz

Same family: on-campus, off-campus, campus-wide, university, college. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Campus comes from a Latin word meaning “field” or “open space.” It was first used in the 18th century to describe the grounds of Princeton University in the United States and later became a general word for university grounds everywhere.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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