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How to spell cooperate

Cooperate is spelled C-O-O-P-E-R-A-T-E.

hear itco·op·er·ate/koʊ'ɑpə,reɪt/verbSchwa and roots

What it means: To work together on a common task.

In a sentence: The students must cooperate to finish the puzzle.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double o, and an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: cooperation, cooperative, cooperatively, operator, operation. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Cooperate” comes from the Latin roots co- meaning “together” and operari meaning “to work.” It literally means “to work together,” and it was first used in English in the 17th century to describe people joining their efforts.

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