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How to spell influence

Influence is spelled I-N-F-L-U-E-N-C-E.

What it means: The ability to affect someone or something.

In a sentence: The teacher had a positive influence on her students. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: influential, influenced, influencing, influenceable, influence (noun). If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word “influence” comes from a Latin word meaning “to flow into” and originally referred to a mysterious power believed to flow from the stars into people’s lives. Over time, it came to mean any kind of power that shapes what people think or do.

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