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How to spell community

hear itcom·mu·ni·ty/kə'mjunɪti/nounLong vowels

What it means: A group of people living in the same area.

In a sentence: Our community came together to plant trees in the park.

The part people get wrong

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

Same family: communal, communion, communicate, communication, common. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Community comes from the Latin word 'communis,' meaning 'common' or 'shared by all.' It originally described people who share things in common, like land, resources, or beliefs.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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