How to spell classroom

hear itclass·room/'klæs,rum/nounSounds

What it means: A room in a school where students learn.

In a sentence: The children sit quietly in the classroom.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double s and double o. Often misspelled as clasroom or classrom.

Same family: class, room, classmate, classwork, schoolroom. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "classroom" is a simple compound of "class" and "room" and began to be widely used in the 18th and 19th centuries as formal schooling became more common. "Class" originally comes from the Latin "classis," meaning a group or division of people.

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