How to spell financial

hear itfi·nan·cial/fɪ'nænʃəl/adjectiveSilent and tricky

What it means: Relating to money or managing money.

In a sentence: The puppy started a financial club to save money for treats.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as finacial or finnancial.

Same family: finances, financier, financially, financialize, financialization. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Financial comes from the noun finance, which entered English via French from Latin 'finis', meaning 'end' or 'limit'. Originally, it referred to settling a debt or bringing an account to an end, and later grew to mean anything related to money and economic affairs.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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