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How to spell eject

What it means: To escape from an aircraft in an emergency.

In a sentence: The pilot had to eject from the airplane to stay safe. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as ejcet or ejecte.

How learners on Spelling.School have misspelled it: zzz

Same family: ejection, ejects, ejected, project, reject. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Eject” comes from Latin ‘e-’ or ‘ex-’ meaning ‘out’ and ‘iacere’ meaning ‘to throw,’ so it literally means ‘to throw out.’ It is part of a large family of English words with the root “-ject,” like “project,” “reject,” and “object,” all involving the idea of throwing or casting.

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