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How to spell channel

Channel is spelled C-H-A-N-N-E-L. Two N's in the middle and -EL at the end, as in tunnel and flannel.

What it means: A narrow waterway or passage.

In a sentence: The squirrel found a little channel to cross the stream. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double n.

Same family: channeling, channeled, rechannel, redirect, focus. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Channel comes from Old French “chanel” and Latin “canalis,” meaning a groove or water pipe. The idea of a physical passage later expanded to the modern sense of directing or transmitting emotions, energy, or information.

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