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How to spell environment

Environment is spelled E-N-V-I-R-O-N-M-E-N-T. It is environ plus -MENT, so keep the N of environ before the M.

What it means: The natural world of land, water, air, and living things.

In a sentence: We need to take care of the environment by planting trees and recycling. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: environmental, environmentalist, environ, environmentally, surroundings. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Environment comes from the French word “environner,” meaning “to surround.” The modern sense of “the natural world” became especially common in the 20th century as people began to focus more on pollution and conservation.

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