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How to spell currently

What it means: At this time or period.

In a sentence: I am currently reading my favorite book. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double r, and an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as curently or currantly.

How learners on Spelling.School have misspelled it: zzz

Same family: current, currency, currents, currentness. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Currently” comes from the adjective “current,” which traces back to Latin *currere*, meaning “to run.” So a “current” thing is something that is “running along” with the present time, and “currently” describes what is happening right now.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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