How to spell experience

hear itex·pe·ri·ence/ɪk'spiriəns/nounLong vowels

What it means: An event or happening that a person goes through.

In a sentence: I had a fun experience at the zoo yesterday.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear, and the order of ie. Often misspelled as experiance or expirience.

Same family: experienced, experiencing, inexperience, inexperienced, experiment. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Experience comes from Latin "experientia," from "experiri," meaning "to try" or "to test." It’s related to the word "experiment," so when you experience something, you are in a way "trying it out" in real life.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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