How to spell evidence

hear itev·i·dence/'ɛvɪdəns/nounRules and real life

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. Often misspelled as evidance or evedence.

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.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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