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How to spell indicate

Indicate is spelled I-N-D-I-C-A-T-E.

What it means: To show or point out something.

In a sentence: Can you indicate which door is the right one to choose? ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: indication, indicator, indicated, indicating, indicative. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Indicate” comes from the Latin word *indicare*, meaning “to point out” or “to show.” It’s built from *in-* (“toward”) and *dicare* (“to make known”), the same root that appears in words like “dictionary” and “dictate.”

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