How to spell contact

hear itcon·tact/'kɑntækt/verbSilent and tricky

What it means: To communicate with someone or something.

In a sentence: You can contact Grandpa by sending him a letter.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as contakt or contect.

Same family: contacts, contacted, contacting, contactable, contactless. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word “contact” comes from Latin roots con- (“together”) and tangere (“to touch”). It originally meant physical touching, and later developed the figurative sense of a person you ‘connect with’ for help or information.

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