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How to spell journey

Journey is spelled J-O-U-R-N-E-Y.

hear itjour·ney/'dʒɜrni/nounSounds

What it means: The act of traveling from one place to another.

In a sentence: The family went on a journey to the magical forest.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: journeys, journeyed, journeying, trip, voyage. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Journey comes from Old French "jornee," meaning a day's work or a day's travel, from Latin "diurnum" (day). Over time, the meaning shifted from just a day’s travel to any significant trip or experience of traveling.

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