How to spell interact

hear itin·ter·act/,ɪntər'ækt/verbPrefixes and work

What it means: To communicate or spend time with others.

In a sentence: The puppies love to interact and play with each other in the park.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as intreact or interakt.

Same family: interaction, interactive, actor, action, react. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Interact comes from the Latin prefix "inter-" meaning "between" and the root "act" meaning "to do or drive." It literally suggests actions happening "between" people or things, which fits its modern meaning of acting with or toward others.

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