How to spell commercial

hear itcom·mer·cial/kə'mɜrʃəl/nounLong vowels

What it means: An advertisement on television or radio.

In a sentence: We watched a funny commercial on TV.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double m, and an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as comercial or commmercial.

Same family: commercials, commercially, commercialize, commerce, commercialism. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Commercial comes from the Latin word 'commercium,' meaning trade or business. It first meant ‘related to commerce,’ and only later started to mean an advertisement on radio or television in the early 20th century.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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