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How to spell individual

What it means: A single person or thing.

In a sentence: Each individual in our class has their own special talent. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as individuel or indivdual.

Same family: individuals, individually, individualism, individualist, individuality. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Individual” comes from Latin *individuus*, meaning “not divisible, inseparable.” It originally referred to something that could not be split into smaller parts, and over time it came to mean a single person or thing considered separately from a group.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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