How to spell league

hear itleague/liɡ/nounRules and real life

What it means: An association of sports teams.

In a sentence: Our baseball team won the league championship!

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as leage or leauge.

Same family: interleague, league-wide, major-league, minor-league, association. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: League comes from Old French "ligue" and Italian "lega," both meaning an alliance. It originally referred to a political or military alliance long before it became a common word for organized sports groups.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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