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How to spell equity

hear iteq·ui·ty/'ɛkwɪti/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: The quality of being fair and equal.

In a sentence: Equity means sharing things fairly with everyone.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as equaty or equety.

Same family: equal, equality, equitable, inequity, inequality. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Equity” comes from the Latin word “aequitas,” meaning fairness or evenness. In history, equity also became a special branch of law in England that focused on fairness when strict legal rules felt too harsh.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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