How to spell contradict

hear itcon·tra·dict/,kɑntrə'dɪkt/verbSchwa and roots

What it means: To deny the truth of something.

In a sentence: Sometimes friends contradict each other but still get along.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as contridict or contradickt.

Same family: contradiction, contradictory, dictate, dictionary, predict. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Contradict comes from Latin roots: contra meaning 'against' and dicere meaning 'to say or speak.' So to contradict someone literally means 'to speak against' what they have said.

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