How to spell interrupt

hear itin·ter·rupt/,ɪntə'rəpt/verbPrefixes and work

What it means: To break into someone's activity or conversation.

In a sentence: Please don't interrupt the teacher while she's talking.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double r. Often misspelled as interupt or interruptt.

Same family: interruption, uninterrupted, interrupting, interruptive, disrupt. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Interrupt” comes from Latin ‘interrumpere,’ formed from ‘inter’ meaning ‘between’ and ‘rumpere’ meaning ‘to break.’ So the word literally means ‘to break between,’ which matches the idea of breaking into someone’s speech or an ongoing activity.

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