How to spell export

hear itex·port/ɪk'spoʊrt/verbSchwa and roots

What it means: To send goods to another country for sale.

In a sentence: The farmers export apples to other countries.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as exsport or expot.

Same family: exported, exporter, exporting, import, transport. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Export” comes from Latin *exportare*, meaning “to carry out,” from *ex-* (“out”) and *portare* (“to carry”). The same root appears in words like “import,” “transport,” and even “portable.”

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