How to spell hardship

hear ithard·ship/'hɑrdʃɪp/nounPrefixes and work

What it means: A state of misfortune or affliction.

In a sentence: Facing a hardship can make you stronger and braver.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as hartship or hardshippe.

Same family: hard, hardly, hardness, hardships, difficulty. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Hardship” comes from the Old English word “hard,” meaning ‘difficult’ or ‘severe,’ plus the suffix “-ship,” which originally meant ‘state, condition, or quality.’ So “hardship” literally means ‘the state of being hard or difficult.’

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