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How to spell community

Community is spelled C-O-M-M-U-N-I-T-Y. Two M's, as in common, then a single N: com-mu-ni-ty.

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.

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.

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