How to spell entertainment

hear iten·ter·tain·ment/,ɛntər'teɪnmənt/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: Something that amuses or pleases people.

In a sentence: The clown's funny tricks were the best entertainment at the party.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as enterainment or entertaiment.

Same family: entertainer, entertaining, entertained, entertainers, entertainments. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Entertainment” comes from the Old French word “entretenement,” related to ‘entertain,’ which originally meant to hold together or maintain. Over time, the meaning shifted from ‘maintaining’ someone to ‘amusing’ or ‘diverting’ them, giving us today’s sense of fun activities that hold our attention.

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