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How to spell coordinate

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. Often misspelled as coodinate or co-ordinate.

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.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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