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How to spell conference

Conference is spelled C-O-N-F-E-R-E-N-C-E. It is confer plus ENCE: con-fer-ence, keeping the E after the F.

hear itcon·fer·ence/'kɑnfərəns/nounRules and real life

What it means: A formal meeting for discussion.

In a sentence: The teacher went to a big conference to learn new things.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: league, division, association, tournament. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Conference comes from Latin roots meaning “to bring together,” and it originally referred to people meeting to talk; in sports, it later came to mean a group of teams that are brought together to compete under shared rules.

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