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How to spell diameter

Diameter is spelled D-I-A-M-E-T-E-R.

What it means: The length across a circle through its center.

In a sentence: The diameter of the cookie is bigger than my hand! ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: metric, millimeter, centimeter, perimeter, geometry. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Diameter” comes from the Greek word “diametros,” which literally means “measure across.” It is built from “dia-” meaning “across” and “metron” meaning “measure.”

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