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How to spell embarrassment

Embarrassment is spelled E-M-B-A-R-R-A-S-S-M-E-N-T.

What it means: A feeling of awkwardness, shame, or self-consciousness.

In a sentence: She felt some embarrassment when she forgot the poem on stage. ▶

The part people get wrong

Remember the double r and double s before -ment.

Same family: embarrass, embarrasses, embarrassing. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

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