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How to spell creature

hear itcrea·ture/'kriʧər/nounRules and real life

What it means: A living organism, often with voluntary movement.

In a sentence: A tiny creature lives under the rock.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as creeture or creater.

Same family: creation, creative, creativity, creator, recreate. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Creature comes from Latin 'creatura', meaning 'a thing created', from the verb 'creare' ('to create'). Over time, English speakers also began using it for a person who seems completely made, shaped, or controlled by someone else.

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