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How to spell college

College is spelled C-O-L-L-E-G-E. Two L's at the start, then it ends -LEGE, E, G, E, as in privilege.

What it means: An institution for higher education.

In a sentence: Someday, I will go to college to learn a lot of new things. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double l.

Same family: collegiate, college-level, college student, university, campus. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "college" comes from Latin "collegium," meaning a group of people living together under a set of rules. Over time, it came to refer to groups of scholars and then to the buildings and institutions where they study.

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