How to spell include

hear itin·clude/ɪn'klud/verbLong vowels

What it means: Add as part of something else.

In a sentence: Please include your favorite book in the list.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as inclued or inlcude.

Same family: including, included, inclusive, exclusion, conclude. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Include” comes from Latin ‘includere,’ meaning ‘to shut in or enclose.’ Over time, the idea of ‘shutting in’ shifted to our modern sense of ‘letting someone or something be part of a group or whole.’

Patterns it uses: Prefixes keep every letter

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