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How to spell compliment

Compliment is spelled C-O-M-P-L-I-M-E-N-T.

What it means: A remark expressing praise.

In a sentence: She gave her friend a compliment on her pretty dress. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Not to be confused with: complement, a different word.

Same family: compliments, complimented, complimenting, complimentary, praise. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Compliment comes from a Latin word meaning “completion” or “fulfillment,” which later shifted to mean polite words that ‘complete’ good manners. It is often confused with complement, a different word that means something that completes or goes well with something else.

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