How to spell environmental

hear iten·vi·ron·men·tal/ɪn,vaɪrʌn'mɛntʌl/adjectiveRules and real life

What it means: Related to the surroundings or ecological effects.

In a sentence: The environmental club planted trees in the park to help nature.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as enviromental or enviornmental.

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

Where it comes from: “Environmental” comes from the noun “environment,” which originally meant the things that ‘environ’ or surround you. The verb “environ” comes from Old French and ultimately from a Latin root meaning ‘to circle around,’ so the word is literally about the world around us.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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