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How to spell extremely

What it means: To a high degree or extent.

In a sentence: The ice cream was extremely tasty! ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as extreamly or extermely.

Same family: extreme, extremes, extremist, extremity, extremism. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Extremely” comes from the Latin word “extremus,” meaning “outermost” or “to the greatest degree.” Over time, English turned “extreme” into an adjective and then added “-ly” to create the adverb “extremely,” used to show a very high level of something.

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