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How to spell certificate

Certificate is spelled C-E-R-T-I-F-I-C-A-T-E.

What it means: An official document that proves a fact or achievement.

In a sentence: She earned a certificate for completing the art class. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: certify, certified, certification, share-certificate, bond-certificate. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Certificate comes from Medieval Latin 'certificatum', meaning 'something made certain'. It is related to the verb 'certify', which literally means 'to make sure or certain'.

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