How to spell discovery

hear itdis·cov·er·y/dɪ'skəvəri/nounPrefixes and work

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. Often misspelled as discoverey or discivery.

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.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa) · Prefixes keep every letter

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