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How to spell document

What it means: A written record or file.

In a sentence: I wrote a story and saved it in a document. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as doccument or documant.

Same family: documentation, documentary, documented, undocumented, documenter. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Document comes from Latin 'documentum', meaning 'lesson, proof, example', from 'docere' meaning 'to teach.' So a document is originally something that 'teaches' or provides proof.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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