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How to spell discovery

Discovery is spelled D-I-S-C-O-V-E-R-Y.

What it means: The act of finding something new.

In a sentence: The pirate was excited about his discovery of the shiny treasure. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: discovered, discovering, discoverer, rediscover. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Discovery comes from the verb discover, which came into English from Old French and ultimately from Latin roots meaning ‘to uncover’ or ‘to reveal.’ So a discovery is literally something that has been ‘un-covered’ and brought into the open.

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