How to spell formula

hear itfor·mu·la/'fɔrmjələ/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: A recipe or mixture of ingredients.

In a sentence: The scientist mixed the formula to make a magic potion.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as formulla or formala.

Same family: formulas, formulae, formulate, formulation, mathematical-expression. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Formula comes from Latin, where it meant a small form or rule, and was used for legal rules and fixed phrases. Over time, its meaning narrowed in English to a fixed method or set of symbols, especially in math and science.

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