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How to spell immigrate

Immigrate is spelled I-M-M-I-G-R-A-T-E. The part people get wrong: double M.

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.

Not to be confused with: emigrate, a different word.

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.

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