How to spell institute

Institute is spelled I-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-E. Three T's: in-sTi-TuTe, ending -TUTE as in substitute.

hear itin·sti·tute/'ɪnstɪ,tut/nounRules and real life

What it means: An association organized to promote education.

In a sentence: The new institute in town will teach kids how to build robots.

Same family: institution, institutional, institutionalize, establish, found. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Institute” comes from the Latin verb “instituere,” meaning “to set up, establish, or arrange.” The same root also gave us the words “institution” and “constitutional,” all carrying the idea of setting rules or structures in place.

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