How to spell industry

hear itin·dus·try/'ɪndəstri/nounLong vowels

What it means: The organized production of goods and services.

In a sentence: The candy industry makes lots of yummy treats!

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as industy or indestry.

Same family: industrial, industrialize, industrialization, industrialist, industrious. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Industry comes from the Latin word 'industria,' which meant diligence or energetic effort. Over time, the meaning shifted from personal hard work to large-scale economic activity like factories and business sectors.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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