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How to spell emigrate

What it means: To leave one place to live in another.

In a sentence: The birds emigrate to warmer places during winter. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as immigrate or emmigrate.

How learners on Spelling.School have misspelled it: zzz

Sounds like, but is not: immigrate. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.

Same family: migration, migrant, immigrate, immigration, emigration. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Emigrate” comes from Latin *emigrare*, formed from *e-* (a form of *ex-*, meaning “out”) and *migrare* (“to move” or “to wander”). It’s closely related to “immigrate” (move into a country) and “migrate” (move from place to place), which is why learners often confuse these three words.

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