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How to spell funeral

What it means: A ceremony held for a person who has died.

In a sentence: Our family gathered to remember and honor Grandpa at his funeral. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as funerall or feneral.

Same family: funerals, funeral-home, funeral-service, memorial, burial. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Funeral” comes from Latin *funus*, meaning “burial, funeral rites, or corpse.” In older English, related words were used more broadly for death rituals and ceremonies, but today “funeral” usually refers specifically to the ceremony when someone is buried or cremated.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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