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How to spell immigrate

hear itim·mi·grate/'ɪmə,greɪt/verbSchwa and roots

What it means: To come into a new country to live.

In a sentence: Anna's family decided to immigrate to a new country for a fresh start.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double m. Often misspelled as imigrate or immagrate.

Sounds like, but is not: emigrate. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.

Same family: migration, immigration, immigrant, emigrate, migrant. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Immigrate” comes from Latin “immigrare,” meaning “to move into” (im- = into + migrare = to move). It’s closely related to “emigrate,” which means to move out of a country, and “migrate,” a more general word for moving from place to place.

Patterns it uses: Prefixes keep every letter

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