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How to spell experience

Experience is spelled E-X-P-E-R-I-E-N-C-E. The vowel after the P is E, and the ending is -ENCE: ex-PE-ri-ENCE.

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.

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.

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