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How to spell coordinate

Coordinate is spelled C-O-O-R-D-I-N-A-T-E.

What it means: To arrange things to match or look good together.

In a sentence: Let's coordinate our outfits for the party! ▶

The part people get wrong

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

Same family: coordinates, coordination, coordinated, coordinate (verb), coordinator. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Coordinate comes from Latin roots meaning “together” (co-) and “arranged in order” (ordinatus). The mathematical sense of ‘coordinate’ for locating points in space became popular after René Descartes developed coordinate geometry in the 17th century.

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