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How to spell cell

hear itce·l·l/sɛl/nounLong vowels

What it means: The smallest basic unit of all living things.

In a sentence: A cell is a tiny part of every living thing.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double l. Often misspelled as cel or sell.

Sounds like, but is not: sell. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.

Same family: cellar, cellmate, jail, prison, dungeon. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "cell" comes from the Latin word "cella," meaning a small room or storeroom. Over time, it came to mean both tiny biological units in living things and small rooms in prisons or monasteries.

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