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How to spell evidence

Evidence is spelled E-V-I-D-E-N-C-E. An I after the V, as in evident, and it ends -ENCE.

What it means: Information that supports a belief.

In a sentence: The detective found a paw print as evidence that the dog was in the garden. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: evidence (noun), evident, evidently, self-evident, evidential. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Evidence comes from Latin 'evidentia,' meaning 'clearness' or 'obviousness.' The idea is that good evidence makes something so clear that you can almost ‘see’ the truth.

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