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How to spell express

Express is spelled E-X-P-R-E-S-S. The part people get wrong: double S.

What it means: To convey thoughts or emotions.

In a sentence: I can express my feelings with a smile. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double s.

Same family: expression, expressed, expressing, compress, depress. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Express comes from Latin 'exprimere', meaning 'to press out,' from 'ex-' (out) and 'premere' (to press). The original sense was very physical—like pressing juice out of fruit—before it also came to mean 'to show or state a feeling or idea.'

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